 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 sider
...votaries with new hopes and aspirations. Books are her assistants; " the images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 sider
...of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from tho wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation....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... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 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,...the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite action and opinions in succeeding ages." The durable monument of Goldsmith will be in his books ; the... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 518 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,...Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they gene322 OLIVER GOLDSMITH, HIS FRIENDS AND HIS CRITICS. rate still, and cast their seeds in the minds... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 sider
...but " leese " of (lose something of) the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.2 Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still. and cast their... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 sider
...and statues of kings and great personages have perished. But the images of rann's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages, so ihut, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 338 sider
...and the copies cannot but lohe of the life and truth. But the imapres of men's wits and knowledgf-s 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 346 sider
...and the copies cannot but lose of the Hie and truth. Kut the images of men's wits and knowledges C 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... 
