| English essays - 1848 - 744 pages
...feel the truth of the assertion. " The images of men's minds remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation ; neither...images, because they generate still and cast their seed in the minds of otheri, GENT. MAO. VOL. XXIX. provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from the wrong of times, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...succeeding ages : so that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from the wrong of times, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they...succeeding ages : so that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble^ which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...life and 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...succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which' carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth... | |
| William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...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...succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 706 pages
...life and 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...succeeding ages ; so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
| William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...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...succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...life and 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...succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...life and 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...succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...life and 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...succeeding ages; so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the... | |
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