 | Joseph Needham, Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin - 1985 - Liczba stron: 520
...learning and knowledge.*1 True it is that, as Francis Bacon again said: 'The wits and knowledges of men remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.' Let us pray that no evil fire-storm will be let loose upon the world to destroy in an instant much,... | |
 | Neville McMorris - 1989 - Liczba stron: 276
...paper) For Mary, Mother, and Kevin, Julian, and Nicolas But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 1995 - Liczba stron: 254
...the end of the first book of The Advancement of Learning: But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and...images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.7... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - 1996 - Liczba stron: 336
...last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and...images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.9... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - 1998 - Liczba stron: 318
...of the hands. . . . The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrongs of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither...images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.1... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - Liczba stron: 340
...last and the copies cannot but lose the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books exempted from the wrong of time and...images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1999 - Liczba stron: 288
...The Advancement of Learning. 'The images of men's wits and knowledges remains in books', he comments, 'exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual...images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages'.65... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - Liczba stron: 490
...and the copies can not but Jose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in thejninds of .others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages... | |
 | Marjorie Swann - 2001 - Liczba stron: 300
...activities governed, apparently, by Bacon's own maxim that "the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation."117 Scientific print authorship thus became the means by which Bacon attempted to fashion... | |
 | William James Bouwsma - 2002 - Liczba stron: 328
...preserved from generation to generation. As Bacon observed: the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time,...images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages:... | |
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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. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking... 
