 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...excel the noble comparison of the ship ? The reader shall judge for himself. " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, puss through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 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...fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, wliich, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ago so distant to participate of the... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1856 - 396 pages
...the ultimate reach and highest finish of intellect." " If," says Bacon, "ships are to be commended, how much more are letters to be magnified, which,...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, the illuminations, and inventions the one of the other?" So true are Schiller's... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...establishing here, in the language of the master genius of their age, " a secure harbour for letters, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 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? Nay further, we see some of the philosophers which were least divine and most immersed in the senses... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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 ? JOHN DONNE. 1573—1031. JOHX DO*SE, DD, though during his life most popular as a poet, is now chiefly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 900 pages
...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that if the invention of the ship was thought BO noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other? Nay further, we see some of the philosophers which were least divine and most immersed in the senses... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 pages
...seem to know that he doth not." I add one very fine illustration : " If the invention of the stiip was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities...be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast sea of Time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the... | |
 | 1857 - 956 pages
...information from remote times as well as from distant places. "If the invention of the ship," says Bacon, "was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities...consociateth the most remote regions in participation of then- fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass the vast seas of time,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 880 pages
...information from remote times as well as from distant places. ''If tho invention of tho ship," says Bacon, ''was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth tho most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified,... | |
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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... 
