 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...he doth not. The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. We enter into a desire of knowledge sometimes from a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - Books and reading - 1884 - 526 pages
...he doth not. The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. We enter into a desire of knowledge sometimes from a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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...because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the mind of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 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...actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that if the-mvention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to... | |
 | Dalhousie University - 1885 - 230 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...still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provooking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. n. APRIL 16TH. — 10 AM TO... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1889 - 298 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...images, because they generate still and cast their seeds 1 Plato. in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1890 - 514 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...images, because they generate still and cast their seeds 1 Plato. in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 304 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...images, because they generate still and cast their seeds 1 Plato. L_ in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - Greece - 1893 - 348 pages
...treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ; " or, as Bacon puts it, " neither are they (books) fitly to be called images, because they generate still,...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages." Yet when we speak of life, whether actual, or, as in literature and art, metaphorical, we must remember... | |
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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... 
