 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1871
...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 - 204 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
...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 - Electronic book - 1886 - 104 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
...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... | |
 | United States - 1888
...inventions," says Macaulay, " the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Barbarism knows nothing of " rapid transit." It uses what nature has furnished, or what the rudest... | |
 | Albert Augustus Pope - Roads - 1889 - 18 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
...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
...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 - 155 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... 
