| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.2 Neither are they fitly to be called images, because...the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite (numberless) actions and opinions in succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought... | |
| James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 518 pages
...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 are they fitly to be called images, because they gene322 OLIVER GOLDSMITH, HIS FRIENDS AND HIS CRITICS. rate still, and cast their seeds in the minds... | |
| 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,... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...perished. But the images of man's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociuteth the mont remote regions in participations of their fruits, how much more are letters to... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...perished. But the images of rann's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages, so ihut, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1874 - 338 pages
...truth. But the imapres of men's wits and knowledgf-s remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...regions in participation of their fruits; how much more ar£ letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...truth. 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...infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. ' &c. 29. violl= vial = phial, Gr. <f'iaA^. 32. those fabulous Dragons teeth. See the story of Jason,... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 546 pages
...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...the most remote regions in participation of their fruite, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time,... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 556 pages
...beyond the grave. And they are preserved and propagated in books "exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...because they generate still, and cast their seeds into the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages: so... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...truth. 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...because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the mind of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that if... | |
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