 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 - English drama - 1874 - 340 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 knowledges C remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 546 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 into the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...great personages of much later years ; for theoriginals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits...time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither arc they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1877 - 554 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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...renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the mind of others, provoking and causing infinite... | |
 | Apophthegmata - 1877 - 560 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 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...and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the (vrong of time, nnd capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 368 pages
...of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from tho wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to bo called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in tho minds of others, provoking... | |
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