 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,...  Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding - Strana 119podľa Basil Montagu - 1849Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - Počet stránok 500
...to. 1633 : " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years," &c. p. 88. Again: " — without which the history of the world seemeth to be as the Statua of Polyphemus... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - Počet stránok 642
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - Počet stránok 784
...letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and destroyed ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...life and truth : but the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Počet stránok 432
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ceesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Počet stránok 524
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time,*infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ca3sar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - Počet stránok 668
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Csesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - Počet stránok 626
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of mens wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - Počet stránok 490
...his Advancement of Learning, 1633 : — ' It is not possible to have the true pictures, or siatuaes, of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years.' It occurs several times in his forty-fifth Essay, and in other places. Steevens remarks that statue,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - Počet stránok 556
...Learning, ed. 1633, p. 88: — ' It is not possible to have the true pictures or sta&uaes of Cyras, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years.' Again: ' without which the Signifies that from you great Home shall suck Reviving blood : and that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - Počet stránok 560
...1633, p. 88: — ' It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Cxsar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years.' Again : ' without which the history of the world seems to be as the statua of Polyphemus, with his... | |
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