 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 pages
...truth. But the images of men's wita and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the -wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, btoauj": they irtutrnt': still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, prorokinz and camiw; infinite... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...properly be called images, because they cast forth seeds in the minds of men, railing and producing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; so that if the invention of a ship was thought so noble and so wonderful, which transports riches and merchandise from place to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...perpetual renovation. Neither nre they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and east their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, bounded infi nite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if the invention of the ship was thought... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1855 - 374 pages
...truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain, in books exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provokin^and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; so that 11 tho invention of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1857 - 900 pages
...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 are they...ages. So that if the invention of the ship was thought BO noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote... | |
 | Education - 1857 - 956 pages
...information from remote times as well as from distant places. "If the invention of the ship," says Bacon, "was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities...consociateth the most remote regions in participation of then- fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass the vast seas of time,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1857 - 880 pages
...information from remote times as well as from distant places. ''If tho invention of tho ship," says Bacon, ''was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth tho most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified,... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1862 - 898 pages
...knowledge remain in books exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Nor are they fitly to be called images, because they generate...still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages." What we are, I should hope, certain, under... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 894 pages
...information from remote times as well as from distant places. "If the invention of tho ship," says Bacon, "was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and cousociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
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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... 
