 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
 | Perez Zagorin - 1998 - 318 pages
...of the hands. . . . The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrongs of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither...causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.1 This comment can be applied to his own writings, principally to the ones connected with his... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pages
...last and the copies cannot but lose the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from the wrong of time and...invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carries riches and commodities from place to place, and consociates the most remote regions in participation... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1999 - 288 pages
...The Advancement of Learning. 'The images of men's wits and knowledges remains in books', he comments, 'exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual...causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages'.65 While they are more than images, these remains of authors are less than what will be expected... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...years • for the originals -can not last, and the copies can not but Jose 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 thejninds of .others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that,... | |
 | Marjorie Swann - 2001 - 300 pages
...activities governed, apparently, by Bacon's own maxim that "the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation."117 Scientific print authorship thus became the means by which Bacon attempted to fashion... | |
 | William James Bouwsma - 2002 - 328 pages
...forgotten, past wisdom could be fixed and preserved from generation to generation. As Bacon observed: the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in...opinions in succeeding ages: so that, if the invention of a ship was thought so noble . . . how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass... | |
 | Martina Mittag - 2002 - 280 pages
...Mots et les Choses (Paris: Gallimard, 1966). and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrongs of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither...causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages."2 Das demokratische Versprechen, das der Buchdruck ja auch für Frauen implizierte, wird damit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...later years; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of0 the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in...they fitly to be called images, because they generate still,0 and cast their seeds in0 the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions... | |
 | James Shane - 2002 - 710 pages
...who learns of all men. Francis bacon: The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books...they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. S. Smiles: Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - 360 pages
...briefly to the more technical, neoplatonic vocabulary on which Milton will linger, "Neither are they fit to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others." Bacon, however, quickly surrenders the figure of the disseminative book — "they . . . cast their... | |
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