 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
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...cities, have been decayed and destroyed 1 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar ; DO, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...young Scholar. [Classical Tripos, 1836.] 32. 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 494 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...personages of much 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 and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 556 pages
...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 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 and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 pages
...and demolished ! It it not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cxsar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals can not last, and the copies can not bat late of the life and truth. But the images of men's wita and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 502 pages
...great personages of mu'ih Inter 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...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 - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished .' It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of dgment only by their rules, is the humour of a scholar....by experience: for natural abilities are like nat lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of llie kings or great personages of much later years. For...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...pictures or sia lues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of oiuch 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... | |
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