| Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...in that age (1685) who opposed the introduction of what was called the new light, as strenuously as fools in our age have opposed the introduction of vaccination and railroads." lasted. The men who ruled it were acutely conscious of the danger involved in this decline of excitement... | |
| Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...in that age (1685) who opposed the introduction of what was called the new light, as strenuously as fools in our age have opposed the introduction of vaccination and railroads." lasted. The men who ruled it were acutely conscious of the danger involved in this decline of excitement... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...were fools in that age who opposed the introduction of what was called the new light as strenuously as fools in our age have opposed the introduction of...history doubtless opposed the introduction of the plough and of alphabetical writing, Many years after the date of Heming's patent there were extensive... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 452 pages
...fools in that age who opposed the introduction of what was called the new light, as strenuously as fools in our age have opposed the introduction of...history doubtless opposed the introduction of the plough and of alphabetical writing." — Hittury of England, Vol. I. ch. 3. characteristic of himself... | |
| General Electric Company - Electric engineering - 1914 - 1324 pages
...were fools in that age who opposed the introduction of what was called the new light as strenuously as fools in our age have opposed the introduction of...history, doubtless, opposed the introduction of the plough and of alphabetical writing. Many years after the date of Heming's patent there were extensive... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1904 - 710 pages
...who opposed the introduction of what was called the new light as strenuously as fools in a later age opposed the introduction of vaccination and railroads,...history doubtless opposed the introduction of the plough and of alphabetical writing. Many years after the date of Heming's patent there were extensive... | |
| John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 pages
...were fools in that age who opposed the introduction of what was called the new light as strenuously as fools in our age have opposed the introduction of...history doubtless opposed the introduction of the plough and of alphabetical writing. Many years after the date of Heming's patent there were extensive... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - England - 1909 - 196 pages
...wine.' 1 Seymour's London, posed the introduction of what was called* the new light as strenuously as fools in our age have opposed the introduction of...strenuously as the fools of an age anterior to the dawn 5 of history doubtless opposed the introduction of the plough and of alphabetical writing. Many years... | |
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