 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...  Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning - Page 89by Francis Bacon - 1851 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 pages
...great personages of mu»h later years ; for the originals can not last, and the copies can not but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1858 - 626 pages
...which some would have us believe we can take beyond the grave. And they are preserved and propagated in books "exempted from the wrong of time, and capable...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | James Whiteside - Authors, English - 1862 - 100 pages
...great personages of much later years — for the originals cannot 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 capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot 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 capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot 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 capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
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