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 278 por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 páginas Vista completa -
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