Speech · Political speechThe Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.Benjamin Disraeli1838★ 3.7
PoemThe world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William WordsworthThe World Is Too Much with Us · 1807★ 3.5
Economic literatureImprovements succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superseded their utility.Charles Babbage1832★ 1.8