 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...must follow sciences, and not sciences books. a. BACON — Proposition touching Amendment of Laws. in bed ! Last night (I vow to Heaven 'tis true) Bounce...flew. Next post some fatal news shall tell : God sen 6. BACON — Advancement of Learning, Bk. I. Advantages of Learning. Some books are to be tasted, others... | |
 | Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England), William Robert Credland - 1899 - 364 pages
...mind of man, rightly exercised, is sure to make. Hear what the great Lord Bacon said about books : 'The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrongs of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly called images, because... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 pages
...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight - 1900 - 328 pages
...speeches and answers, being full of science and use of science, and that in all variety. * *• * » * The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 462 pages
...(1603-5). " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation." — Ibid. 267 ENCYCLOPEDIAS From Shake-speare "Jaques. 'T is a Greek invocation, to call fools into... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 444 pages
...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar, no, nor of the kings, or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last; and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 pages
...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last ; and the copies cannot but lose of the 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of 25 Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of 30 perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but léese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. 
