 Man, man is the great instrument that produces wealth. The natural difference between Campania and Spitzbergen is trifling when compared with the difference between a country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by...  Our Day - Page 2531895Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1854 - 566 pages
...into cornfield and orchard, and the huge trees of the primeval forest into cities and fleets. Man, man is the great instrument that produces wealth....country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1860 - 592 pages
...into cornfield and orchard, and the huge trees of the primeval forest into cities and fleets. Man, man is the great instrument that produces wealth....country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that... | |
 | John Dennis (of London.) - Hours of labor - 1860 - 186 pages
...Sabbath in a temporal point of view. The passage is taken from his speech on the Ten Hours Bill :— " The natural difference between Campania and Spitzbergen...country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that... | |
 | James Augustus Hessey - 1861 - 602 pages
...Macaulay well puts it in his speech on the Ten Hours BilL (Speeches, corrected by himself, p. 453.) " The natural difference between Campania and Spitzbergen...country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 738 pages
...into cornfield and orchard, and the huge trees of the primeval forest into cities and fleets. Man, man is the great instrument that produces wealth....country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [speeches]) - 1866 - 294 pages
...into cornfield and orchard, and the huge trees of the primeval forest into cities and fleets. Man, man is the great instrument that produces wealth....country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that... | |
 | James Augustus Hessey - Sunday - 1866 - 488 pages
...his speech on the Ten Hours Bill. (Speeches, corrected by himself, p. 453.) " The natural diiference between Campania and Spitzbergen is trifling when...country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 760 pages
...into cornfield and orchard, and the huge trees of the primeval forest into cities and fleets. Man, man is the great instrument that produces wealth....country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1875 - 752 pages
...into cornfield and orchard, and the huge trees of the primeval forest into cities and fleets. Man, man is the great instrument that produces wealth....country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that... | |
 | sir George Otto Trevelyan (2nd bart.) - 1876 - 508 pages
...analogy of the Sunday in order to defend the principle of regulating the hours of labour by law. "Man, man is the great instrument that produces wealth....country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigour, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that... | |
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