 | Samuel Sidney - Railroad gauges - 1846 - 486 pages
...BEFORE ClK iŁnug;f Commission. BY SAMUEL SIDNEY, AUTHoR oF "BRISToL A FREE PoRT," ETC. WITH A MAP. "There be three things which make a nation great and...for men and commodities from one place to another." — LoRD BACoN. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: EDMONDS, 154, STRAND; AND VACHER, PARLIAMENT STREET. London... | |
 | Samuel Sidney - Railroad gauges - 1846 - 668 pages
...GIVEN BEF0RE Commission. BY SAMUEL SIDNEY, AUTHOR OF "BRISTOL A FREB PORT," ETc. WITH A MAP. "There he three things which make a nation great and prosperous,— a fertile soil, husy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and commodities from one place to another."—LORn BAcON.... | |
 | sir William Patrick Andrew - 1848 - 272 pages
...& COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES OF RAILWAYS IN BRITISH INDIA. " There be three things," says Lord Bacon, " which make a nation great and prosperous, a fertile...for men and commodities from one place to another." " Railways are, assuredly, next to the invention of printing, the most powerful instrument of civilization... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - History - 1850 - 460 pages
...OPERATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, ON THE CONTINENT, AND IN AMERICA. BY DIONYSIUS LARDNER, DCL, &c. » There be three things which make a nation great and...fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance of men and things from one place to another." — BACON. " Let us travel over all the countries of... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - 1850 - 560 pages
...ON THE CONTINENT, AND IN AMERICA. BY DI0NYSIIJS LARDNER, DCL &c. " There be three things which mate a nation great and prosperous ; a fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance of men and things from one place to another." — BACOK. " Let us travel over all the countries of... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Railroads - 1850 - 574 pages
...IN OPERATI0N IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, ON THE CONTINENT, AND IN AMERICA. BY DIOMSIUS LARMER, DCL &c. " There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous ; a fertile Foil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance of men and things from one place to another." — BACON.... | |
 | Asia - 1852 - 532 pages
...Cotton Trade of India. By Major-General BRIOGS, FRS 1840. " THERE be three things," Bays Lord Bacon, " which make a nation great and prosperous, a fertile...for men and commodities from one place to another." Railways are, assuredly, next to the invention of printing, the most powerful instrument of civilization... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1858 - 814 pages
...resisted, — these gave us " the three things "that Lord Bacon said, three centuries ago, " made nations great and prosperous, — a fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and commodities." DISCUSSION. Mr. BENTALL rose for the purpose of correcting a statement made in the early portion of... | |
 | 1861 - 236 pages
...their prophet would never have anticipated. Never was a saying more true than that trite one of his, " There be three things which make a nation great and...fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance of men and things from one place to another." The net-work of railways which is spread over our country,... | |
 | Duncan George Forbes Macdonald - British Columbia - 1863 - 558 pages
...PARTHENON AND LITERARY GAZETTE. ' Lord Bacon saith truly, there are three things which make a uation great and prosperous— a fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for man and commodities from one place to another ; but these essentials are, according to our author,... | |
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BACON hath truly said that there are three things which make a nation great and prosperous, — a fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and commodities from one place to another. 
