 | Apophthegmata - 1877 - 560 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 f It is not possible to have the true pictures of Cyrus, Alexander,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 páginas
...continuance : for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this tend 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 statues... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1877 - 554 páginas
...continuance : for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families; to this buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire...human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wil and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 368 páginas
...families ; to this buildings, foundations, and monuments ; to this tendeth the desire of memory, lame and celebration, and in effect the strength of all...during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, havo been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures of statues... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 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...durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For hove not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable... | |
 | English authors - 1880 - 178 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 1 It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues... | |
 | William Thomson - 1880 - 382 páginas
...lime, When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry;" for "We see how far the monuments of wit and learning are more...during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished. The images of men's wits remain in books, exempt from wrong... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 páginas
...continuance: for to this tendeth generation, and raising of Houses and families ; to this tend 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 statues of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1883 - 544 páginas
...continuance : for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this tend 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 statues... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 páginas
...continuance : for to this tendeth generation, and raising of houses and families ; to this tend 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 statues... | |
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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... 
