 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cresar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...It is not possible to have the true pictures or " statuaes '" (statues) of Cyrus, Alexander, Ceesar, no, nor of the kings, or great personages of much...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but " leese " of (lose something of) the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 pages
...kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals can not last, and the copies can not but lose of the life and truth. But the images of...men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from tho wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images,... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...the work of love ; but I would remind you of what Lord Bacon has so thoughtfully and so truly said, " It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Cassar, no, nor the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed Land demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...letter; during1 which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, hare been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. Bui the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1873 - 438 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | 1874 - 906 pages
...letter, during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished. It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's genius and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.... | |
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Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or 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 pictures or statues of Cyrus,... 
