 | 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
...could be fixed and preserved from generation to generation. As Bacon observed: 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, if... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...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 books, exempted from...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... | |
 | 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...because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages."2 Das demokratische... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Shane - 2002 - 710 pages
...of men's wit and knowledge remain in books...they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing 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
...quickly surrenders the figure of the disseminative book — "they . . . cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages" (2:492) — whereas Milton lingers over the disseminative figure. Thus, only a few lines after books... | |
 | Bruce Haley - 2003 - 322 pages
...true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, and Caesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of later years; for the originals cannot last, and the...because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. . . . The... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished? 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, if... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - 2005 - 244 pages
...mens wits and knowledge remaine in Bookes, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetuall renovation: Neither are they fitly to be called Images, because they generate still, and cast their seedes in the mindes of others, provoking and causing infinit actions and opinions, in succeeding ages.... | |
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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... 
