 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 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...cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking anil causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if the invention of the ship... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 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...invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrietli riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 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...actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if ihe invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to... | |
 | James Whiteside - Authors, English - 1862 - 100 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,...generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of 80 OLIVEli GOLDSMITH : HIS F11IENDS AND HIS CRITICS. others, provoking and causing infinite action... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...votaries with new hopes and aspirations. Books are her assistants; " the images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 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,...the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite action and opinions in succeeding ages." The durable monument of Goldsmith will be in his books ; the... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 518 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,...Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they gene322 OLIVER GOLDSMITH, HIS FRIENDS AND HIS CRITICS. rate still, and cast their seeds in the minds... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...copies cannot but " leese " of (lose something of) the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.2 Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still. and cast their... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...the pictures and statues of kings and great personages have perished. But the images of rann's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages, so ihut, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from... | |
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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... 
