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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... "
Lectures Upon Shakspeare - Page 41
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...are they fitly to be called ' images,' because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast sea of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...are they fitly to be called ' images,' because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast sea of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions,...
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The Leodiensian; or Leeds grammar school magazine

Leeds grammar sch - 1828 - 364 pages
...are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions, in succeeding ages." So much for the pleasures of learning : now hear what he saith of the advantages thereof':— " It is...
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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 pages
...in their way, they generate still, and cast forth seeds in the minds of men, raising and procreating infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages; so that, if the invention of a ship was thought so noble and wonderful, — which transports riches and merchandise from place to...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 10; Volume 58

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1833 - 690 pages
...in their way, they generate still, and cast forth seeds in the minds of men, raising and procreating infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages ; so that, if the invention of a ship was thought so noble and wonderful, — which transports riches and merchandise from place to...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1833 - 578 pages
...in their way, they generate still, and cast forth seeds in the minds of men, raising and procreating infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages; so that, if the invention of a ship was thought so noble and wonderful,—which transports riches and merchandise from place to...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 16

1850 - 772 pages
...are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions...invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrietb riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...perturbations, labours, and " wanderings up and down of other men." 8. Learning insures immortality .... 87 //' the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities frons place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how...
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Memoirs of the life of ... sir James Mackintosh [extr. from ..., Volume 1

sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 552 pages
...communion of wisdom and wise men throughout all ages and nations of the world. ' If,' says Lord Bacon, ' the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other !' Alas I gentlemen...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 526 pages
...and wise men throughout all ages and nations of the world. ' If,' says Lord Bacon, ' the intention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches...through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other!' Alas! gentlemen; what...
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