 ... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass...  Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh - Page 119by Sir James Mackintosh - 1836Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...opinions in succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which currieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of iln-ir fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast was... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; so that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other? Nay, further, we... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 374 pages
...others, provokin^and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; so that 11 tho invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...commodities from place to place, and consociateth tho most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions the one of the other ? JOHN DONNE. 1573—1031.... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1856 - 430 pages
...others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; so that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other 1 Nay, further, we... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...aught excel the noble comparison of the ship ? The reader shall judge for himself. " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, puss through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, wliich, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ago so distant to participate of the... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1856 - 396 pages
...the ultimate reach and highest finish of intellect." " If," says Bacon, "ships are to be commended, how much more are letters to be magnified, which,...and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, the illuminations, and inventions the one of the other?" So true are Schiller's lofty words : — "... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...establishing here, in the language of the master genius of their age, " a secure harbour for letters, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom. the illumination, and inventions the one of the other." What scene more... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other? Nay further, we... | |
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