 We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time,...  Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding - Page 119by Basil Montagu - 1849Full view - About this book
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 pages
...the work of love ; but I would remind you of what Lord Bacon has so thoughtfully and so truly said, " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cassar, no, nor the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed Land demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures...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. Neither... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...the loss of a syllable or letter; during1 which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, hare been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to...originals cannot last : and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. Bui the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 438 pages
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...37. but doe contain, Sec. Cp. Bacon's Advancement of Learning, I. riii. 6, p. 72, ed. Aldis Wright: 'It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...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. Neither... | |
 | 1874 - 906 pages
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter, during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished. It is not...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's genius and knowledge remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 346 pages
...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, * :aisar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 340 pages
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, nasties, cities, have been decayed and demolished? It is not...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ctosar; no, nor of the Kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 338 pages
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, CiBsar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 560 pages
...in his Advancement of Learning, 1633:—" It is not possible to have the true pictures, or staluaes, of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years." It occurs several times in his forty-fifth Essay, and in other places. Steevens remarks that statue,... | |
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