| Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in 5 the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...in participation of their fruits, how much more are let. ters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seaa of time, and make ages so distant... | |
| 1871 - 892 pages
...are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...succeeding ages ; so that if the invention of the ship wai thought so noble, which canieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
| 1882 - 778 pages
...province, was of course a lover of books ; his periods in their praise are as grand as Cicero's : — If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...how much more are letters to be magnified, which, a ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 pages
...had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." I add one very fine illustration : " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast sea of Time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1884 - 516 pages
...culled innige*, because they generate »till, and east their n-nls in the minds of others, piovoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding...invention of the ship was thought so noble, which earrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and eonsocmteth the most remote regions in participation... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1885 - 416 pages
...are they fitly to be called Images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...participation of their Fruits, how much more are letters to he magnified, which, as Ships, pass through the vast Seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...opinions in succeeding ages. So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carried riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth...much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pa?* through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations,... | |
| 1898 - 456 pages
...are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations and inventions,... | |
| 1895 - 696 pages
...indefeasible possession; we can not get rid of them if we would. "If," declares Lord Bacon, "the intention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions one of the other." The history of modern literature... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing 20 infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages :...remote regions in participation of their fruits, how ranch more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass tnrough the vast seas of time, and make... | |
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