 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 374 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to havo the true pictures of statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 630 pages
...as in his Advancement of Learning, 1633 : " It is not possible to have the true pictures or slatuaes 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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1856 - 368 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cassar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar ; no, nor of tho kings or 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 knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...than the monuments of pJ^rer or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable...knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of tune and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable...leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wite and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Oaisar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings...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... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 pages
...Bacon has so thoughtfully and so truly said, " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings...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... | |
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. 
