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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and ... - Page 322
by Francis Bacon - 1857
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Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1850 - 368 pages
...last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. l!ut the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from the wrong of time, and...called images, because they generate still, and cast tlieir seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing iiilinite actions and opinions in succeeding...
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Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1851 - 376 pages
...originals cannot laft, and the Copies cannot but lofe of the life and truth. But the Images of men's wits and knowledges remain in Books, exempted from the...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called Images, becaufe they generate ftill, and caft their feeds in the minds of others, provoking and caufing infinite...
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, Volume 41

1852 - 702 pages
...properly be called image?. because they cast forth seeds in the minds of men. raising and producing 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 place,...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 556 pages
...originals can not last, and the copies can not but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches aud commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 pages
...originals can not last, and the copies can not bat late of the life and truth. But the images of men's wita and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...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...
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The National Magazine, Volume 3

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...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 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...seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infi nite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if the invention of the ship was thought...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...last: 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, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither nre they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and east their seeds in the minds...
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Cicero's Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1855 - 374 pages
...last, and the copies can not 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,...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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - English literature - 1857 - 900 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...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...
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