 But the images of men's wits and knowledge 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...  The Advancement of Learning - Page 66by Francis Bacon - 1898Full view - About this book
 | 1874 - 906 pages
...and demolished. It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the Kings or great personages of much later...lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's genius and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1874 - 346 pages
...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, * :aisar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the Hie and truth. Kut the images of men's wits and knowledges C remain in books, exempted from the wrong... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...Aldis Wright: 'It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1874 - 338 pages
...and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, CiBsar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lohe of the life and truth. But the imapres of men's wits and knowledgf-s remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...and demolished? 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...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 560 pages
...Learning, 1633:—" It is not possible to have the true pictures, or staluaes, 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,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been, decayed and demolished i It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...kings or 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...demolished ? 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...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Apophthegmata - 1877 - 560 pages
...decayed and demolished f It is not possible to have the true pictures of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...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... | |
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