 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 páginas
...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 statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ;... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 páginas
...infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed, and demolished ? It is not possible tc have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander,...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 páginas
...and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ceesar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...the 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...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, Cffisar, no, nor of (he kings or great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last:... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 páginas
...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 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 - 1864 - 464 páginas
...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 statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...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, Cresar, no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years. For the originals cannot last... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 páginas
...the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time infinite (numberless) palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ! 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... | |
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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,... 
