 Ask a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy, as 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 extinguished diseases ; it has increased the...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 278by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable. Ask the follower of Bacon, what the- new philosophy, as it...of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendour of the... | |
 | 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...of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt ' innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night ' with the splendour of... | |
 | 508 pages
...mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has pVen new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the... | |
 | 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...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 512 pages
...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 ?...of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Agricultural innovations - 1841 - 484 pages
...philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable. Ask the follower of Bacon, what the new philosophy, as it...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our father^ ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...Compare Pericles and Julian. This philosophy confessed, nay boasted, that for every end but one it was useless. Had it attained that one end ? Suppose that...of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendour of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...Compare Pericles and Julian. This philosophy confessed, nay boasted, that for every end but one it was useless. Had it attained that one end? Suppose that...of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it'has lighted up the night with the splendour of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...should not have been equally able to do without it ?" Such questions, we suspect, would have puss zled Simplicius and Isidore. Ask a follower of Bacon what...rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to oo r fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the... | |
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