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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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Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: And His Cato Major, an Essay on Old ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 pages
...of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from tho wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation....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...
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Essays and Lectures: Historical and Literary

James Whiteside - 1868 - 520 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,...Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they gene322 OLIVER GOLDSMITH, HIS FRIENDS AND HIS CRITICS. rate still, and cast their seeds in the minds...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...the copies cannot but " leese " of (lose something 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 perpetual renovation.2 Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still. and cast their...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pages
...and the pictures and statues of kings and great personages have perished. But the images of rann's minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages, so ihut, if...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 pages
...demolished, and the pictures and statues of kings and great personages have perished. But the images of man'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...
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Milton. Areopagitica, ed. with intr. and notes by J.W. Hales

John Milton - 1874 - 228 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. ' &c. 29....
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Shakespeare. Ben Jonson. Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and Lectures

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 338 pages
...and the copies cannot but lohe of the life and truth. But the imapres of men's wits and knowledgf-s remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...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...
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Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

1874 - 906 pages
...and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's genius and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...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...
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Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and Lectures

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 340 pages
...and the copies cannot but lose of the Hie and truth. Kut the images of men's wits and knowledges C remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...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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Engelske forfattere i udvalg. med biografiske indeldminger og oplysende ...

Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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, if...
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