 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and associateth the most remote regions in participation of their . fruits, how much more are Letters to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 pages
...called images, because they generate s.till, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and cousociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - Civilization - 1865 - 686 pages
...wherein man excelleth beasts" to that immortality whereunto man's nature doth aspire, exclaims : — " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and cousociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits : how much more are letters to... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Bookbinding - 1866 - 328 pages
...qualities that Lord Bacon likened books to ships. " If," said that wise man, " ships are to be commended, how much more are letters to be magnified, which,...through the vast seas of Time, and make ages so distant participate in the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions one of the other !" Dear, precious indeed... | |
 | Modern culture - Culture - 1867 - 458 pages
...information from remote times as well as from distant places. " If the invention of the ship," says Bacon, " was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities...are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 pages
...called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding...letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through tho vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...generate still. and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite (numberless) actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that,...commodities from place to place, and consociateth (links together) the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...ship was thought so noble, which carrict commodities from place to place and consociatcth the remotest regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be valued, which, like ships, pass through the vast ocean of time, and convey knowledge and inventions... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - English language - 1870 - 72 pages
...turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. — Shakspeare. If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most distant regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified which,... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1871 - 136 pages
...other food with as much indifference and security as if no creature at all were near them. — Swift. If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? — Boom. Thus while... | |
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... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass... 
