 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
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 244 pages
...clustered around his own fireside, and found * " If the invention of the ship," says Lord Bacon, " was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities...participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to he magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant participate... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...clustered around his own fireside, and found * " If the invention of the ship," says Lord Bacon, " was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities...regions in participation of their fruits, how much more arc letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 616 pages
...fine eulogium of Bacon, on knowledge in general, but peculiarly applicable to this species of it ? " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...the vast seas of time, and make ages, so distant, participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other." The credit attached... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 pages
...fine eulogiiim of Bacon, on knowledge in general, but peculiarly applicable to this species of it ? " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble,...how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as chips pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages, so distant, participate of the wisdom, illuminations,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh, J. G. Marvin - 1843 - 108 pages
...and wise men throughout all ages and nations of the world, ' If,' says Lord Bacon, ' the intention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant, participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other !' Alas! gentlemen,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...use and employment thereof. [Books and Shipt Compared.] If the invention of the ship was thought eo participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [ S/liâtes.] Studies... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 232 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...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast was of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 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...succeeding ages. So that, if the invention of the thip was thought so noble, which carricth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth... | |
 | 1845 - 916 pages
...Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still and cast their seed in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.'* In conclusion, we cannot help thinking that the world would be much benefited by the revival of the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 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...consociateth the most remote regions in participation ' their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas... | |
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