 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...in their way, they generate still, and cast forth seeds in the minds of men, raising and procreating infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages; so that, if the invention of a ship was thought so noble and wonderful, — which transports riches and merchandise from place to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...: and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the thip was thought so noble, which carricth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...few that Bacon's words can most truly be applied : — ' That the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...images, because they generate still and cast their seed in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.'*... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...wrong of time, and capahle of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to he called images, hecause they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds...so that if the invention of the ship was thought so nohle, which cairieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be culled images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the miuds of others, provoking... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth : but the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books exempted from the wrong...causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; BO that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 396 pages
...originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...invention of the ship was thought so noble, which csrrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 398 pages
...copies cannot I • 42 THE DRAMA GENERALLY, but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...be called images, because they generate still, and cant their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite action* and opinions in succeeding... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1849 - 398 pages
...originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...they fitly to be called images, because they generate siill, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits "E 1850 A. Hart, late Carey & Hart" was-thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
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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... 
