 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 sider
...truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of tune and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 sider
...and the copies can not 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... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1858 - 626 sider
...which some would have us believe we can take beyond the grave. And they are preserved and propagated in books "exempted from the wrong of time, and capable...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... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1862 - 898 sider
...men, proving the truth of Bacon's beautiful remark — " That the images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Nor are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 sider
...and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 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,...cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking anil causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if the invention of the ship... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 sider
...and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and...succeeding ages. So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrietli riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 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,...actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if ihe invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 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,...generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of 80 OLIVEli GOLDSMITH : HIS F11IENDS AND HIS CRITICS. others, provoking and causing infinite action... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
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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... 
