 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 694 pages
...expanded very differently from Mr. Buckle :— ' Printing, gunpowder, and the magnet, these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world : the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation ; insomuch that no empire, no sect,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...recent, is obscure and inglorious; namely, printing, gunpowder, and the magnet. For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world; the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation; whence have followed innumerable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pages
...recent, is obscure and inglorious ; namely, printing, gunpowder, and the magnet. For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world ; the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation ; whence have followed innumerable... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 pages
...these three things," says Lord Bacon, " to wit, Printing, Gunpowder, and the Mariner's Compass, have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world; the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation; whence have followed innumerable... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Logic - 1864 - 472 pages
...these three things," says Lord Bacon, u to wit, Printing, Gunpowder, and the Mariner's Compass, have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world ; the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation ; whence have followed innumerable... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Logic - 1864 - 480 pages
...these three things," says Lord Bacon, " to wit, Printing, Gunpowder, and the Mariner's Compass, have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world ; the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation ; whence have followed innumerable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1864 - 528 pages
...recent, is obscure and inglorious ; namely, printing, gunpowder, and the magnet. For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world ; the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation ; whence have followed innumerable... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...recent, is obscure and inglorious; namely, printing, gunpowder, and the magnet. For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world; the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation; whence have followed innumerable... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...recent, is obscure and inglorious ; namely, printing, gunpowder, and the magnet. For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world ; the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation ; whence have followed innumerable... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Burlingame - Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of - 1920 - 246 pages
...tho recent, is obscure and inglorious; namely, printing,- gunpowder, and the magnet. For these have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world ; the first in literature, the second in warfare; the third in navigation; whence have followed innumerable... | |
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For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world; the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation; whence have followed innumerable changes; insomuch that no empire, no sect, no star seems to... 
