| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 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 ?* But let us now consider what the drama should be. And first, it is not a copy, hut an imitation,... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - 1858 - 626 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...seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate in the wisdom, and illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other."* 119. There is a peculiarity... | |
| 1858 - 894 pages
...information from remote times as well as from distant places. "If the invention of tho ship," says Bacon, "was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and cousociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
| Jean Jules Jusserand - 1926 - 668 pages
...has recourse and which count among the finest in the language, he exclaims : " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...wisdom, illuminations and inventions the one of the otherl" He then draws the immense picture of what, according to his views, men should learn, and which... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 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... | |
| Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 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, A, 90. BOOKS are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be... | |
| 1865 - 834 pages
...by unseen hands into the wide field of the world. " If," says Lord Bacon, " the invention of ships was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1914 - 276 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...regions in participation of their fruits, how much more j are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through * the vast seas of time, and make ages so... | |
| Royal Society of Canada - 1887 - 580 pages
...learned of some apostle from the Mediterranean the grand invention of letters, which, as Bacon says, " as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and...illuminations and inventions, the one of the other ; " then, we may confidently anticipate the recovery of some graphic memorial of the messenger, confirming... | |
| Robert Malcolm Smuts - 1987 - 340 pages
...ship was thought so nohle, which cartierh tiches and commodities from place to place, and consociaterh the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are lerters to he magnified, which as ships pass over the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to... | |
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