 The works touching books are two : first, libraries which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 69by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Robert Cowtan - 1873 - 106 pages
...ii, UNTER DEN LINDEN. 1873[All Rights Secured.] 2/0 Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion and imposture. are preserved and reposed — LORD BACON. J. WINTER JONES, ESQ., VPSA PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN... | |
 | Newton Abbot College - 1875 - 354 pages
...Knowledge is power. Nam et ipsa scientia potestas eit. Libraries are the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. This same... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...places. The works touching books are, " first, libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...the like." The works pertaining to the persons of the learned are encouragement of teachers of known science, and also of those whose research is into... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...5. The works touching books are two : first, libraries which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...glosses, more diligent annotations, and the like. 6. The works pertaining to the persons of learned men (besides the advancement and countenancing of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...left but in fomenting discord. TACITUS. LIBRARIES. Libraries are os the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. LORD BACON. Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed, might bring forth... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...and inventions, the one of the other 1 Libraría. Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics . SIR WALTER RALEIGH. During the twelve years of his imprisonment, Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the chief... | |
 | Connop Thirlwall - 1878 - 514 pages
...special investigation. " Libraries," Lord Bacon observes, "are as the shrines, where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." But this is a description of an ideal rather than of an actual library. We might, indeed, not inaptly... | |
 | Foxborough (Mass. : Town). Centennial Executive Committee - Foxboro (Mass.) - 1879 - 284 pages
...and whose influence as a public educator cannot be told, — "a shrine where all the relics of the saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." We point to our schools, manufactories, public buildings, and things innumerable, — evidences, as... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...left but in fomenting discord. TACITUS. LIBRARIES. Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics liments; for be they never so sufficient otherwise,...enemies will be sure to give them that attribute to LORD BACON. Libraries are the wardrolws of literature, whence men, properly informed, might bring forth... | |
 | John Gregg (bp. of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.) - Sunday school teachers - 1880 - 96 pages
...mighty men. Here is embalmed the life-blood of the master-spirits of the world. In this their " relics full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." Here are engraven their deeds of deathless renown. Gentle as lambs, but bold as the lions, they * Lord... | |
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