 | Josiah Quincy - 1840 - 762 pages
...their age, "a secure harbour CHAPTER for letters, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas ' \\XVIIf of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, the illumination, and inventions the one of the other." What scene more sublime, what more glorious... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 616 pages
...Bacon, on knowledge in general, but peculiarly applicable to this species of it ? " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...the vast seas of time, and make ages, so distant, participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other." The credit attached... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 pages
...Bacon, on knowledge in general, but peculiarly applicable to this species of it ? " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as chips pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages, so distant, participate of the wisdom, illuminations,... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 pages
...provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? — Lord Bacon. CHRISTIAN UNITY. By all accounts there are few mountains drenched in more copious... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh, J. G. Marvin - 1843 - 130 pages
...and wise men throughout all ages and nations of the world. ' If,' says Lord Bacon, ' the intention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant, participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! ' Alas ! gentlemen,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...use and employment thereof. [Books and Shipt Compared.] If the invention of the ship was thought eo participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [ S/liâtes.] Studies... | |
 | William Dobson - 1845 - 204 pages
...provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? — Bacon, " Advancement of Learning.-" WEDNESDAY, April 7. Into Latin Hexameters. Spirit. To the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...illuminations, and inventions the one of the other V Passages of equal force and beauty might be quoted from almost every page of this work and of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...opinions in succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the thip was thought so noble, which carricth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth...illuminations, and inventions the one of the other 1" Passages of equal force and beauty might be quoted from almost every page of this work and of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 232 pages
...provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast was of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions the... | |
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So that 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... 
