 | 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... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 616 pages
...fine eulogium of Bacon, on knowledge in general, but peculiarly applicable to this species of it ? " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...the vast seas of time, and make ages, so distant, participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other." The credit attached... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 pages
...fine eulogiiim of Bacon, on knowledge in general, but peculiarly applicable to this species of it ? " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as chips pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages, so distant, participate of the wisdom, illuminations,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh, J. G. Marvin - 1843 - 108 pages
...and wise men throughout all ages and nations of the world, ' If,' says Lord Bacon, ' the intention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant, participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other !' Alas! gentlemen,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...use and employment thereof. [Books and Shipt Compared.] If the invention of the ship was thought eo participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [ S/liâtes.] Studies... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 232 pages
...called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast was of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding...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
...called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding...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
...called images, hecause they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding...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... | |
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... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass... 
