| Henry Barnard - 1857 - 880 pages
...information from remote times as well as from distant places. ''If tho invention of tho ship," says Bacon, ''was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth tho most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified,... | |
| 1858 - 894 pages
...information from remote times as well as from distant places. "If the invention of tho ship," says Bacon, "was thought so noble, which 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... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...ship was thought so noble, wluch carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociatclh the most remote regions in participation of their...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas nf time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 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...invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrietli riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 pages
...surpassed by none. Can aught excel the noble comparison of the ship ? The reader shall judge for himself. " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consotiateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to... | |
| Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 524 pages
...nature doth aspire, ext-lainis : — " If the invention of the ship was thought so iioblt>, whi<-h carrieth riches and commodities from place to place,...participation of their fruits : how much more are letters to h*" magnified, which as ships pass through the vast was of time, aud make ages so distant to jwirticipate... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 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,...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and coneociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 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 ihe invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to... | |
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