 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see, then, how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than...hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see, then, how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than...hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than...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 great personages... | |
 | 1843 - 706 pages
...fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than...been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cscsar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...and celebration, and in effect, the strength of all other humane desires ; we see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than...verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...and celebration, and in effect, the strength of all other humane desires ; we see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the bauds. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...in effect, the strength of all other humane desires ; we see then how far the monuments of wit aud learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the bauds. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than...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 great personages... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...fame and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than...been decayed 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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than...been decayed 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... | |
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time... 
