 | Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...which carries off the performer where he would not go. Emerson, J, VII, 334. THE images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Bacon, A, 90. NEITHER are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin - Science - 1985 - 520 pages
...learning and knowledge.*1 True it is that, as Francis Bacon again said: 'The wits and knowledges of men remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.' Let us pray that no evil fire-storm will be let loose upon the world to destroy in an instant much,... | |
 | Neville McMorris - Science - 1989 - 276 pages
...0-8386-3321-8 (alk. paper) For Mary, Mother, and Kevin, Julian, and Nicolas But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. — Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning Contents Preface 9 Acknowledgments 15 PART I: The Philosophical... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - Anthropology in literature - 1996 - 336 pages
...last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and...causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.9 While images, belonging to the mimetic arts, can only present a diminished copy of the original,... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - Philosophy - 1996 - 620 pages
...perfect them. But he believed that, like other 'images of men's wits', they would 'continually generate and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking...causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages'.5 The images of Bacon's wits did provoke infinite and valuable actions. As for opinions, what... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - Books and reading - 1996 - 394 pages
...because they generate still and cast their seedes in the mindes of others, provoking and causing infinit actions and opinions, in succeeding ages. So that if the invention of the Shippe was thought so noble, which carryeth riches, and commodities from place to place, and consociateth... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 318 pages
...of the hands. . . . The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrongs of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither...causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.1 This comment can be applied to his own writings, principally to the ones connected with his... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 pages
...last and the copies cannot but lose the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from the wrong of time and...invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carries riches and commodities from place to place, and consociates the most remote regions in participation... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 288 pages
...The Advancement of Learning. 'The images of men's wits and knowledges remains in books', he comments, 'exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual...causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages'.65 While they are more than images, these remains of authors are less than what will be expected... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...-can not last, and the copies can not but Jose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the...because they generate still, and cast their seeds in thejninds of .others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that,... | |
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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... 
