 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...tumult make them not audible, all things dissolve into anarchy and confusion. Books and Ships Compared. c W N ]H - participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other 1 Libraría. Libraries... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1877 - 154 pages
...Lord Bacon, will probably be recognized by many, if not by every one : " If the invention of ships was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 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...So that, if the invention of the ship was thought 80 noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 368 pages
...called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in tho minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; so that if tho invention of the ship was thought BO noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...tumult make them not audible, all things dissolve into anarchy and confusion. Bvvks and Ships Compared. If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and cousociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in 5 the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding...in participation of their fruits, how much more are let. ters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seaa of time, and make ages so distant... | |
 | 1871 - 892 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 ship wai thought so noble, which canieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
 | 1882 - 778 pages
...province, was of course a lover of books ; his periods in their praise are as grand as Cicero's : — If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...how much more are letters to be magnified, which, a ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom,... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 278 pages
...to be called images, because they generate and cast their seeds in the minds of others": * * * and "if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches from place to place, how much more letters, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 pages
...had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." I add one very fine illustration : " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast sea of Time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the... | |
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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... 
