 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 sider
...truth. 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...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 - 862 sider
...truth. 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...invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrietli riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 sider
...surpassed by none. Can aught excel the noble comparison of the ship ? The reader shall judge for himself. " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consotiateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 sider
...truth. 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...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
...truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of 80 OLIVEli GOLDSMITH : HIS F11IENDS AND HIS CRITICS. others, provoking and causing infinite action... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 sider
...had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." I add one very fine illustration : " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and coneociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 sider
...truth. 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...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and cousociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 sider
...books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly called images, because they generate still, and cast...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and associateth the most remote regions in participation of their . fruits, how much more are Letters to... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 686 sider
...wherein man excelleth beasts" to that immortality whereunto man's nature doth aspire, exclaims : — " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and cousociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits : how much more are letters to... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 sider
...truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...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... | |
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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... 
