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" 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... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ... - Page 64
by Francis Bacon - 1826
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Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...originals cannot laft, and the Copies cannot but lofe of the life and truth. But the Images of men's wits and knowledges remain in Books, exempted from...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called Images, becaufe they generate ftill, and caft their feeds in the minds of others, provoking and caufing infinite...
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The two books of Francis Bacon: of the proficience and advancement of ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 236 pages
...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...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,...
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Foliorum Centuriae: Selections for Translation Into Latin and Greek Prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from...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,...
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, Volume 41

1852 - 702 pages
...properly be called image?. because they cast forth seeds in the minds of men. raising and producing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages; so that if the invention of a ship was thought so noble and wonderful, which transports riches and merchandise from place to place,...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 494 pages
...originals can not last, and the copies can not but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from...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,...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 pages
...originals can not last, and the copies can not bat late of the life and truth. But the images of men's wita and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, btoauj": they irtutrnt': still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, prorokinz and camiw; infinite...
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The National Magazine, Volume 3

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...properly be called images, because they cast forth seeds in the minds of men, railing and producing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; so that if the invention of a ship was thought so noble and so wonderful, which transports riches and merchandise from place to...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 504 pages
...truth. But the images of men's wits aud knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, imd capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...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,...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...last: and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither nre they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and east their seeds in the minds...
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