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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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The Book-lover's Enchiridion: Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of ...

Alexander Ireland - Books and reading - 1883 - 320 pages
...doth not. — Essays. The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. — Essays. Samuel Daniel. 1562 — 1619. 0 blessed Letters ! that combine in one All Ages past, and...
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The book-lover's enchiridion, thoughts, selected and arranged by Philobiblos

Book-lover - 1883 - 336 pages
...doth not.— "Essays." 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 fitly to bo called images, because they generate still, and casts their seeds in the minds of others, provoking...
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The book-lover's enchiridion, thoughts, selected and arranged by Philobiblos ...

Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...know that 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...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. We enter into a desire of knowledge sometimes from a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...
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The Book-lover's Enchiridion: Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of ...

Alexander Ireland - Books and reading - 1884 - 526 pages
...know that 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...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. We enter into a desire of knowledge sometimes from a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes...
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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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 wrong...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...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Notes and lectures upon ...

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...
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 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...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...
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Calendar of Dalhousie College and University

Dalhousie University - 1885 - 230 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...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...
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The Pleasures of Life, Part 1 and 2

Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1889 - 298 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...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...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...held in the hand. 486 Itic.hard Aunyermjle (Richardde Bury) : Philobiblon. The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. 487 Bacon: Advancement of Learning. Bk. i. Advantayea of Learning. Some books are to be tasted, others...
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