 | 1838 - 534 sider
...life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge, remain in books, exempted from the wrung of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither...succeeding ages. So that if the invention of the ship teas thought so по/île, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociatcth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 sider
...last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infi nite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if the invention of the ship was thought... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 sider
...in their way, they generate still, and cast forth seeds in the minds of men, raising and procreating infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages; so that, if the invention of a ship was thought so noble and wonderful, — which transports riches and merchandise from place to... | |
 | J. Hemming Webb - 1839 - 102 sider
...last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...succeeding ages ; so that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 sider
...last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 sider
...and the copies cannot but lose of their life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...succeeding ages ; so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 sider
...: and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
 | William Dobson - 1845 - 204 sider
...last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 sider
...: and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the thip was thought so noble, which carricth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth... | |
 | 1845 - 916 sider
...few that Bacon's words can most truly be applied : — ' That the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...images, because they generate still and cast their seed in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.'*... | |
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking... 
