 It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 278por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1871 - 604 páginas
...follower of Bacon, we are told what the new philosophy, as it was called in the time of Charles II., has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1872 - 1252 páginas
...owing to their different texture, reflect the rays of light." Ask a follower of Bacon, we are told, what the new philosophy as it was called in the time...spanned great rivers and estuaries, with bridges of form lyikuown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted... | |
 | William Swinton - 1872 - 238 páginas
...The infernal doors ; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. — Milton. 10. It (Bacon's Philosophy) has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 páginas
...other improvement. It is the necessary condition of any advance in civilisation. 'It has,' he says, ' lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of forms unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it... | |
 | William Swinton - 1874 - 238 páginas
...The infernal doors ; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. — Milton. 10. It (Bacon's Philosophy) has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has...innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted np the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 páginas
...of Bacon produced observations, experiments, discoveries, machines, entire arts and industries : ' It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it...bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided tne thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted np the nignt with the splendour of... | |
 | William Swinton - 1874 - 240 páginas
...increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given ncw securities to the mariner ; it has furnished ncw arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of... | |
 | 1876 - 794 páginas
...which, applied to the Natural Sciences, England's greatest historian and essayist has so well said : " It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of... | |
 | Isaac T. Coates - 1876 - 78 páginas
...claims for the Baconian philosophy may quite as well be claimed for our self-government, that, " It hath lengthened life, it has mitigated pain, it has extinguished...heaven to earth, it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day, it has extended the range of the human vision, it has multiplied the power of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 páginas
...the fertility of the soil; it 1ms given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arras to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries...heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of... | |
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