 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...Continuance. For to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this tend buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...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 infinite... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...Continuance. For to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this tend buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...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 infinite... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...continuance : for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this tend buildings, foundations, and monuments; to this tendeth the desire...during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 710 pages
...continuance ; for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...tendeth the desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect, the strength of all other humane desires ; we see then how far the monuments of wit...verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 640 pages
...continuance: for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this tend buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...continuance : for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families; to this buildings, foundations, and monuments; to this tendeth the desire...during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and destroyed ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...continuance : for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families : to this tend buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...continuance : for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 526 pages
...continuance : for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...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... | |
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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... 
