 ... 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...  An Essay on the Influence of Poetry on the Mind - Page 82by J. Hemming Webb - 1839 - 86 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...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,...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander,...be magnified, which as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished I It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander,...be magnified, which as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions... | |
 | 1843 - 706 pages
...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,...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...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,...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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,...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations and inventions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...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,...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, proyoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the mind of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
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