 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
 | William Dana Orcutt - 1917 - 408 páginas
...the comfort and necessities of mankind. "Dedicate it to Science, for, in the language of Macaulay, 'It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt harmlessly from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day; it has extended... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1923 - 448 páginas
...been held in the highest esteem by the public; it has drawn to itself almost all the sap and vigor of the human intellect: and what has it effected ?...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... | |
 | 1926 - 762 páginas
...and his answer is ready—It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished disease; it has increased the fertility of the soil. It has...new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers with bridges of form and strength unknown to our fathers. It has guided the thunderbolt innocuously... | |
 | 1840 - 708 páginas
...suspect, would have puzzled Simplicius and Isidore. Ask a follower of Bacon what the newphilosophy, as it was called in the time of Charles the Second,...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the... | |
 | George Steiner - 1971 - 156 páginas
...places. In Macaulay's famous encomium of the new horizon of science in the "Essay on Bacon" of 1837: It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from the heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendour of the day; it has extended the... | |
 | H. Paul Santmire - 1985 - 296 páginas
...Light. In 1837, the English historian Thomas MacCaulay uttered a still more exuberant paean for science: It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form not known to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from the heaven to earth; it has... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 páginas
...life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned...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... | |
 | Robert N. Proctor, Robert Proctor - 1991 - 364 páginas
...fruits of the Englishman's philosophy in one of the most spirited rhapsodies ever sung to science: Ask a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy, as...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... | |
 | 1907 - 1164 páginas
...it are not undeserving of such a eulogium as that pronounced by Macaulay on the philosophy of Bacon: 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1878 - 634 páginas
...Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready : " It has lengthened life ; it Las mitigated pain -. it has extinguished diseases ; it...innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the uight with the splendour of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied... | |
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