 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...seat on the bench near the judge, or when at the muster of the militia he saluted the lord lieutenant. The chief cause which made the fusion of the different...to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 884 pages
...of the different ele- Difficult ments of society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty which unj. our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 850 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...seat on the bench near the Judge, or when at the muster of the militia he saluted the Lord Lieutenant. The chief cause which made the fusion of the different...to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excopted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 714 pages
...saluted the Lord Lieutenant. Difficulty The chief cause which made the fusion of the different of travel- elements of society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty...to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Commercial products - 1853 - 616 pages
...great modern historian of England has well said, that next to the alphabet and the printing press, those inventions which .abridge distance have done most for the civilization of mankind. We may add, truly, that the rail-road is the great apostle of progress. Though it has come... | |
 | Laughlan Bellingham Mackinnon - Falkland Islands - 1852 - 352 pages
...communications. ' Of all inventions,' says one of the greatest writers* of the day, ' the alphabet and printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for civ* Macaulay. History of England, Chap. III. ilization. Every improvement of the menus of locomotion... | |
 | John Blakely - Natural theology - 1856 - 302 pages
...results. Of all human inventions — the alphabet, the manufacture of paper, and the printing press excepted — those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species. It has been remarked by an acute observer of historical changes1 that " every improvement in the means... | |
 | George Roberts - England - 1856 - 620 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 480 pages
...which made the fusion of the difDwcuity of ferent elements of society so imperfect was travelling. ^e extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing...to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation... | |
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The chief cause which made the fusion of the different elements of society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. 
