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" 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 fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the... "
The North American Review - Page 57
1843
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare - 1904 - 218 pages
...of Learning : " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuas of Cyrus, Alexander, Ctesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years." Your statue spouting blood in many pipes, In which so many smiling Romans bathed, Signifies that from...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

1905 - 958 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but léese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted...
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The Aldus Shakespeare: With Copious Notes and Comments, Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1909 - 214 pages
...Learning, 1633: "It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years." The measure evidently requires that it be a word of three syllables here, as also in Act iii. sc. 2,...
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Of Education: Areopagitica; The Commonwealth

John Milton - 1911 - 304 pages
...Aldis Wright : " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted...
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The Book-lovers' Anthology

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot fast, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges...
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Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D.

Thomas Smyth - 1912 - 832 pages
...possible to have the true picture or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar; no, nor of the kings and great personages of much later years ; for the originals...the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in book, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. "J When Alexander destroyed...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and. knowledges remain in books, exempted...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...and demolished f It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted...
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A Treasury of English Prose

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 pages
...i, 379. BOOKS IT is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted...
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Books and Ideals: An Anthology

Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted...
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