| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 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...letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through tho vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...generate still. and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite (numberless) actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that,...commodities from place to place, and consociateth (links together) the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...ship was thought so noble, which carrict commodities from place to place and consociatcth the remotest regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be valued, which, like ships, pass through the vast ocean of time, and convey knowledge and inventions... | |
| William Stewart Ross - 1870 - 72 pages
...turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. — Shakspeare. If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most distant regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified which,... | |
| James Currie (A.M.) - 1871 - 136 pages
...other food with as much indifference and security as if no creature at all were near them. — Swift. If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? — Boom. Thus while... | |
| George Markham Tweddell - 1872 - 438 pages
...pounds weight of silver for thirty or forty volumes. " If the invention of the ship," says LORD BACON, " was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other !" And again : — "... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...he 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... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 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...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociuteth the mont remote regions in participations of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pages
...the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages, so ihut, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participations of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1872 - 602 pages
...ship was thought so noble, which carries commodities from place to place and consociateth the remotest regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be valued, which, like ships, pass through the vast ocean of time, and convey knowledge and inventions... | |
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