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The Advancement of Learning - Page 68
by Francis Bacon - 1873 - 376 pages
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cffisar, no, nor of (he 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 knowledge remain in books, exempted from...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cresar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...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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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...It is not possible to have the true pictures or " statuaes '" (statues) of Cyrus, Alexander, Ceesar, no, nor of the kings, or great personages of much...cannot last, and the copies cannot but " leese " of (lose something of) the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,...
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Essays and Lectures: Historical and Literary

James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 pages
...said, " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cassar, no, nor the kings or great personages of much later years...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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Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: And His Cato Major, an Essay on Old ...

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...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...cities, hare 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. Bui the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from...
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Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

1874 - 906 pages
...castles, 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 genius and knowledge remain in books, exempted...
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Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and Lectures

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 346 pages
...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, * :aisar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, 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...
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Shakespeare. Ben Jonson. Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and Lectures

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 338 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, CiBsar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, 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...
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Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and Lectures

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 340 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 knowledges C remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are...
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