 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...truth. 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...seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infi nite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if the invention of the ship was thought... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pages
...in their way, they generate still, and cast forth seeds in the minds of men, raising and procreating infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages; so that, if the invention of a ship was thought so noble and wonderful, — which transports riches and merchandise from place to... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...clustered around his own fireside, and found * " If the invention of the ship," says Lord Bacon, " was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities...regions in participation of their fruits, how much more arc letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 are they...succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the thip was thought so noble, which carricth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth... | |
 | 1845 - 916 pages
...— ' That the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...images, because they generate still and cast their seed in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.'*... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...truth. 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...consociateth the most remote regions in participation ' their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...truth. 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...place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participatiun of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, p ki which, as ships, pass... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...wrong of time, and capahle of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to he called images, hecause they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds...so that if the invention of the ship was thought so nohle, which cairieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...truth : 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...causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; BO that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - 238 pages
...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 are they...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consocialeth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
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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. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking... 
