| Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...desire of memory, fame, and celebration ; and in effect, the strength of all other human \ desires. We see then how far the monuments of wit and \ learning...are more durable than the monuments of power or of J the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...fame, and celebntion ; and in effect, the strength of all other humane desire* [Works, iii. 290-3. We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years and more, without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles,... | |
| Mrs. Henry Pott - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 432 pages
...survive the monuments of power, " etc.J " We see, then, how far the monuments of wit and learning ;ire more durable than the monuments of power or of the...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished. . . . Hut the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of tune,... | |
| Mrs. Henry Pott - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 432 pages
...and in the verdict of the " next ages." He had assured himself, long before he made his will, that " the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands ; " that learning, " by Miich man ascendeth to the heavens, is immortal," for " the images of men's... | |
| William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1892 - 270 pages
...more men their living than either Sylla or Caesar or Augustus ever did." Upon page 63: "But we see how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of material memorials and manufactures. Have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five centuries of... | |
| Gaston Bonet-Maury - Religion and culture - 1895 - 396 pages
...moraliste. 1. Bacon a exprimé une pensée semblable : H We sec UOAV far Ibe monuments of wit and learninp; are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For, have not Ihe verses of Homer continurd 2500 years or more, withont the loss of a syllable or a letter, during... | |
| Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - Scotland - 1912 - 322 pages
...to men of learning arebeginning to realise the truth of Bacon's assertion that the monuments of w,t and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of tho hands; and to see that a man's own writings arehis best memorial. DOMINIE SAMPSON. WIRE-PULLING... | |
| John Piersol McCaskey - American literature - 1897 - 592 pages
...sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. We see how far the monuments of wit and learning are more...time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have decayed and been demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...desires. We see then limn-far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than ffif_"V^T"irpQrtc "f power or of the hands. For have not the verses of...without the loss of a syllable or letter ; during which lutime infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been / decayed and demolished ? It is not possible... | |
| Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1898 - 258 pages
...pointing out how much the pleasures of the intellect exceed those of the senses, Bacon goes on to show how the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of those built with hands, "for have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more,... | |
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