| 1846 - 512 pages
..."laudator temporis acti" ? Take your answer from one who has drawn the comparison in a right spirit. " It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it...has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth... | |
| 1837 - 538 pages
...it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready. It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it... | |
| 1837 - 608 pages
...answer is ready — 'It has 'lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished dis' eases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has...has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges ' of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt ' innocuously from heaven to earth... | |
| 508 pages
..."laudator temporís acti" ? Take your answer from one who has drawn the comparison in a right spirit. " It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it...it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has pVen new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great... | |
| 1838 - 822 pages
...was fjlloJ in the time of Charles the Second, has effected fur mankind, and his answer is ready — 'It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it baa giren new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned... | |
| John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 pages
..."laudator temporis acti" 1 Take your answer from one who has drawn the comparison in a right spirit. " It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth... | |
| Alonzo Potter - Agricultural innovations - 1841 - 484 pages
...it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready. It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it...has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our father^ ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready; "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it...has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready; " st of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers....them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are of form unknown to oo r fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ;... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 pages
...was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready; , "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it... | |
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