 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...  The Advancement of Learning, Book I - Page 72by Francis Bacon - 1904 - 145 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 500 pages
...to. 1633 : " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years," &c. p. 88. Again: " — without which the history of the world seemeth to be as the Statua of Polyphemus... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 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 - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...cities, have been decayed and destroyed ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ceesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ca3sar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of mens wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 484 pages
...Advancement of Learning, 1633 : — ' It is not possible to have the true pictures, or statuaes, of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years.' It occurs several times in his forty-fifth Essay, and in other places. Steevens remarks that statue,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 556 pages
...Learning, ed. 1633, p. 88: — ' It is not possible to have the true pictures or sta&uaes of Cyras, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years.' Again: ' without which the Signifies that from you great Home shall suck Reviving blood : and that... | |
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