 | James Anderson - 1793 - 412 pages
...ages. Books are like ihips, which pafs through the vast seas of time ; and make the most distant ages to participate of the wisdom, illumination, and inventions, the one of the other. 'LoRD BACON. '•How much superior. must that merchant be who deals upon such boundlefs stores, imported... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...opinions in 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...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast sea of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...opinions in 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...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast sea of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...opinions in 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...make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? Nay farther, we see, some of the philosophers... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...opinions in 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...make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions the one of the other 2" Passages of equal force and beauty might be u... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...opinions in 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...make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions the one of the other V Passages of equal force and beauty might be u2... | |
 | 1843 - 706 pages
...opinions in 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...make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other." — Advancement of Learning, pp. 100- 102. This... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...opinions in 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...make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other? Nay farther, we see some of the philosophers which... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...opinions in 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...make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? Nay further, we see, some of the philosophers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...opinions in 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...make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? Nay farther, we see, some of the philosophers... | |
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... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass... 
