 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 fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking...  Lectures Upon Shakspeare - Page 41by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001Limited preview - About this book
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1914 - 276 pages
...Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...regions in participation of their fruits, how much more j are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through * the vast seas of time, and make ages so... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Smuts - 1987 - 340 pages
...ship was thought so nohle, which cartierh tiches and commodities from place to place, and consociaterh the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are lerters to he magnified, which as ships pass over the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to... | |
 | Neville McMorris - 1989 - 276 pages
...are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. — Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning Contents Preface 9 Acknowledgments 15 PART I: The Philosophical... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - 1996 - 336 pages
...centuries of oblivion. What ships achieve in space, letters do in the dimension of time. Once more Bacon: So that if the invention of the ship was thought so...in participation of their fruits, how much more are the letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - 394 pages
...because they generate still and cast their seedes in the mindes of others, provoking and causing infinit actions and opinions, in succeeding ages. So that if the invention of the Shippe was thought so noble, which carryeth riches, and commodities from place to place, and consociateth... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pages
...are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carries riches and commodities from place to place, and consociates the most remote regions in participation... | |
 | William James Bouwsma - 2002 - 328 pages
...are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...opinions in succeeding ages: so that, if the invention of a ship was thought so noble . . . how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - 360 pages
...quickly surrenders the figure of the disseminative book — "they . . . cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages" (2:492) — whereas Milton lingers over the disseminative figure. Thus, only a few lines after books... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages, (below, p. 168) CHRONOLOGY 1561 aa Jan., born at York House, the Strand, the youngest of Sir Nicholas... | |
 | James Shane - 2002 - 710 pages
...of men's wit and knowledge remain in books...they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. S. Smiles: Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed... | |
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