 | Josiah Seymour Currey - 1918 - 570 pages
...goods from place to place." On the right spandrel was an inscription taken from Macaulay, as follows: "Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press...abridge distance have done most for civilization." The problem of transportation has, perhaps, been solved more completely by Americans than by any other... | |
 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ). Meeting - 1919 - 352 pages
...intercommunication of men Macauley has spoken in often quoted words : "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | John Lyle Harrington, Ernest Emmanuel Howard - 1918 - 76 pages
...DREDGING COMPANY. PAVEMENTS, WARREN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. "OF ALL INVENTIONS. THE ALPHABET AND THE PRINTING PRESS ALONE EXCEPTED. THOSE INVENTIONS WHICH ABRIDGE DISTANCE HAVE DONE MOST FOR THE CIVILISATION OF OUR SPECIES. EVERY IMPROVEMENT OF THE MEANS OF LOCOMOTION BENEFITS MANKIND MORALLY... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1919 - 498 pages
...of the wide use of the automobile in the United States. :o. "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Comment on this statement, n. Mention some of the most important... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1919 - 944 pages
...of the wide use of the automobile in the United States. 10. "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Comment on this statement, n. Mention some of the most important... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1920 - 844 pages
...of the wide use of the automobile in the United States. IT. "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Comment on this statement. 12. "Next to steam-locomotion, the telegraph... | |
 | Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland - 1920 - 588 pages
...difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1921 - 978 pages
...principal manufacturing districts and cities of Great Britain. 5. "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Comment on this statement. 6. " Next to steam-locomotion, the telegraph... | |
 | George Fillmore Swain - 1922 - 234 pages
...of men and commodities from one place to another." BACON. "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." MACAULAY. "What is vulgar, and the essence of all vulgarity, but... | |
 | George Richard Chatburn - 1923 - 568 pages
...the extreme difficulty found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
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Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. 
