 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 páginas
...continuance ; for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 páginas
...continuance ; for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monunfents of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 páginas
...families ; to this tend buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire of meirory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength...during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed, and demolished ? It is not possible tc have the true pictures or statues... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 656 páginas
...characters we owe the letters of Cadmus, the alphabets of Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, England : whereby " have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five...during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished?" 1 When we turn from the consideration of all the wondrous... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...tendeth the desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other humane desires : we see then how far the monuments of wit...verses of Homer continued twentyfive hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 páginas
...continuance ; for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...tendeth the desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other humane desires : we see then how far the monuments of wit...verses of Homer continued twentyfive hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles,... | |
 | sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 1014 páginas
...characters we owe the letters of Cadmus, the alphabets of Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, England : whereby " have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five...during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ?"1 When we turn from the consideration of all the wondrous... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - 1866 - 316 páginas
...But then he adds, " the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than monuments of power or of hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued...during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished." Frederick, called in English the Great, and in German the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 páginas
...(Wisdom of Solomon, viii. 17.) all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit (mind) and learning are more durable than the monuments of...a syllable or letter ; during which time infinite (numberless) palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ! It is not possible... | |
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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... 
