 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 480 pages
...society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press...morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press...morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...an hour, would enable us to go • One of the most popular authors of the day, has remarked, that, " of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press...inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 560 pages
...society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press...inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...the greatest number" is one of the pillars of the Constitution. "Of all inventions," says Macaulay, "the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted,...inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Every improvement, oy which time or distance from place to place is lessened,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excopted, those inventions which abridge distance have done...morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1852 - 546 pages
...society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press...distance have done most for the civilisation of our specks. _Every improvement, means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as~wglt^i... | |
 | India - 1852 - 566 pages
...treating of the causes that checked the advance in civilization of our forefathers, " Of all inven' tions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted,...inventions which abridge distance have done most ' for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of ' the means of locomotion benefits mankind, morally... | |
 | India - 1852 - 556 pages
...treating of the causes that checked the advance in civilization of our forefathers, " Of all inven' tions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted,...inventions which abridge distance have done most ' for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of ' the means of locomotion benefits mankind, morally... | |
 | Lauchlan Bellingham Mackinnon - History - 1852 - 332 pages
...which abridge distance have done most for civ* Macaulay. History of England, Chap. III. ilization. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits...morally and intellectually, as well as materially; and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to... | |
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Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually... 
