 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast sea of time, and make ages so distant to participate of...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other? Nay, farther, we see some of the philosophers, which were least divine and most immersed in the senses,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast sea of time, and make ages so distant to participate of...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? Nay, farther, we see some of the philosophers, which were least divine and most immersed in the senses,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ? Nay farther, we see, some of the philosophers which were least divine, and most immersed in the senses,... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...succeeding extract from Bacon's Advancement of Learning; whence it is highly probable that he derived it. " Some of the Philosophers which were least divine,...most " immersed in the senses, and denied generally the Immortality " of the Soul ; yet came to this point, that whatsoever motions " the spirit of Man... | |
 | 1843 - 706 pages
...participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other." — Advancement of Learning, pp. 100- 102. This is not the language of one who held that inventions... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate...illuminations, and inventions the one of the other V Passages of equal force and beauty might be u2 quoted from almost every page of this work and of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate...illuminations, and inventions the one of the other 2" Passages of equal force and beauty might be u 2 quoted from almost every page of this work and of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate...wisdom, illuminations, and inventions the one of the other1" Passages of equal force and beauty might be u2 quoted from almost every page of this work and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate...illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other? Nay farther, we see some of the philosophers which were least divine, and most immersed in the senses,... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate...most immersed in the senses, and denied generally the immortality of the soul ; yet came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could... | |
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So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships... 
