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" Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble,... "
The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Philosophical works - Page 316
by Francis Bacon - 1857
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble^ which carrieth riches and commodities from...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast sea of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast sea of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which' carrieth riches and commodities from...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? Nay farther, we see, some of the philosophers which were least divine, and most immersed in the senses,...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from...illuminations, and inventions the one of the other 2" Passages of equal force and beauty might be u 2 quoted from almost every page of this work and of...
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The North American Review, Volume 56

1843 - 706 pages
...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other." — Advancement of Learning, pp. 100- 102. This is not the language of one who held that inventions...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from...illuminations, and inventions the one of the other V Passages of equal force and beauty might be u2 quoted from almost every page of this work and of...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from...wisdom, illuminations, and inventions the one of the other1" Passages of equal force and beauty might be u2 quoted from almost every page of this work and...
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The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement ...

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? Nay farther, we see, some of the philosophers which were least divine, and most immersed in the senses,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...of other men." 8. Learning insures immortality .... 87 If the invention af the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other? Nevertheless, I do not pretend, and I know it will be impossible for me, by any pleading of mine, to...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages; so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from...illuminations and inventions, the one of the other?" After having thus explained some of the blessings attendant upon knowledge, he concludes the first...
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