 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
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - Počet stránok 478
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed, and demolished ? It is...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,... | |
 | William Dobson - 1845 - Počet stránok 204
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - Počet stránok 490
...; during which iime infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished 1 It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Počet stránok 730
...more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed, and demolished ? It is...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Počet stránok 732
...infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have heen decayed, and demolished ? It is not possihle to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander,...much later years ; for the originals cannot last, aud the copies cannot hut lose of the life aud truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Počet stránok 778
...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 possible to have the true ictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the ings or great personages of much later... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - Počet stránok 616
...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,... | |
 | Henrietta Joan Fry - 1848 - Počet stránok 304
...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, Basil Montagu - 1848 - Počet stránok 594
...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, Ca;sar; no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - Počet stránok 396
...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... | |
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