 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
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - Quotations, English - 1904 - 920 pages
...library was dukedom enough for me. — Shakespeare. Libraries are the shrines where all the relics of saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. — Bacon. Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed, may bring forth... | |
 | Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - American literature - 1905 - 614 pages
...to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth." "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." CRITICISMS. 1. His faults were—we write it with pain—coldness of heart and meanness of spirit.... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...| 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 3 , are preserved and reposed; secondly, new editions of authors, with more correct impressions, more... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1905 - 280 pages
...then be only approximately attained. 1 Libraries, he says, 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. Writing on the education of Youth to Sir Henry Savill1, he... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1905 - 332 pages
...achievement; for who will not agree with Bacon "that 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?" With magic touch the skilled painter limns in his perspective, deceiving our senses with the illusion... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...acquisition is that of good books. — Collón. Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of sahits, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. — Bacon. Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed, may bring forth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 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...profitable glosses, more diligent annotations, and the ike. 6. The works pertaining to the persons of learned men besides the advancement and countenancing... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...I., 1605, Speech on Visit to the Bodleian Library. Libraries 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. — BACON, FRANCIS LORD, 1605, The Advancement of Learning. I never come into a library (saith Heinsius)... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - Anthologies - 1911 - 452 pages
.... 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. — F. BACON, LORD VERULAM. Of the Advancement of Learning. A MOST HORRIBLE INFAMY NEVER had we been... | |
 | Medicine - 1911 - 318 pages
...provision of libraries in this city. "Libraries," says Bacon, "are the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that...delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed." Providence is rich in such shrines — the Public Library, the Athenaeum, the John Hay Library, the... | |
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