 But the images of men's wits and knowledges 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 minds of others, provoking...  Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning - Page 89by Francis Bacon - 1851 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...later years ; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but " leese " of (lose something of) the life and truth. But the images of men's wits...exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.2 Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still. and cast their... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 518 pages
...last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they gene322 OLIVER GOLDSMITH, HIS FRIENDS AND HIS CRITICS. rate still, and cast their seeds... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 pages
...great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 pages
...great personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last, and the copies can not but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from tho wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pages
...and the pictures and statues of kings and great personages have perished. But the images of rann's because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 pages
...demolished, and the pictures and statues of kings and great personages have perished. But the images of man's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images because they generate still and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | 1874 - 906 pages
...and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's genius and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 346 pages
...and the copies cannot but lose of the Hie and truth. Kut the images of men's wits and knowledges C remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 338 pages
...and the copies cannot but lohe of the life and truth. But the imapres of men's wits and knowledgf-s remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
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