 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1871 - 524 pages
...undue emphasis : " Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. * * * Every improvement of the means of locomotioq benefits mankind morally and intellectually, as... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - English language - 1882 - 238 pages
...parliament. 23. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. 24. You thus employ 'd, I will go root away The noisome weeds, which without profit suck The soil's... | |
 | James Charles Blomfield - 1882 - 342 pages
...inventions," says Lord Macaulay, " the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, " those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. " Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually, "as well... | |
 | Burton Willis Potter - Highway law - 1886 - 132 pages
...Macaulay declares that of all inventions, the alphabet and printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1888 - 742 pages
...persistence of vision. I may once again draw attention to the words of Macaulay : " Those projects which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species," and then mention the discovery of an instrument which I think realizes those words more nearly than... | |
 | Albert Augustus Pope - Roads - 1889 - 30 pages
...OCTOBER 17, 1889. Transporta tío« Librajy \гЛ V. У /лMR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN : Macaulay says that of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. A nation, or... | |
 | Local history - 1891 - 496 pages
...England says : "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. The inhabitantsjof London were for almost every practical purpose further from Reading (in the seventeenth... | |
 | Alfred Emory Lee - Columbus (Ohio) - 1892 - 1202 pages
...TO TURNPIKE. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as... | |
 | James Lewis Cowles - Parcel post - 1896 - 198 pages
...operation within the limits of the United States. " Of all inventions, the alphabet and printingpress excepted, those which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement in the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as... | |
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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 civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually... 
