 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...  University Bulletin - Page 3541898Full view - About this book
 | Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England), William Robert Credland - 1899 - 364 pages
...mind of man, rightly exercised, is sure to make. Hear what the great Lord Bacon said about books : 'The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrongs of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly called images, because... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...later years ; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in...because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the mind of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that if... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight - 1900 - 328 pages
...speeches and answers, being full of science and use of science, and that in all variety. * *• * » * The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 468 pages
...later years, for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in...of time and capable of perpetual renovation.''—^^ 267 ENCYCLOPEDIAS "Jagues. 'T is a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle." As You Like It,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 216 pages
...images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of 30 perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be...invention of the ship was thought so noble, which consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...later years ; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in...books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of 30 perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1911 - 304 pages
...later years ; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in...provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions ID succeeding ages." — Quoted by Hales. they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest... | |
 | H. Crouch Batchelor - 1912 - 156 pages
...is absolutely compatible with an apostrophe to an imagined personification of the Shakespeare plays. "The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages." In his Essay " Of Parents and Children " he says :— "The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1915 - 272 pages
...later years; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits- < and knowledges remain...because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the mind's of others, provoking and >Jr causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages: so that,... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1921 - 272 pages
...which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished? . . . But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of tune and capable of perpetual renovation". Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they... | |
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