 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 Seiten
...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...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 time infinite... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 Seiten
...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...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1877 - 554 Seiten
...celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see then how far the monuments of wil and learning are more durable than the monuments of...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 Seiten
...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...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished 1 It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the... | |
 | Apophthegmata - 1877 - 560 Seiten
...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...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished f It is not possible to have the true pictures of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of the kings or... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 368 Seiten
...the desire of memory, lame and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. We see, then, how far the monuments of wit and learning...which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, havo been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures of statues of Cyrus,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 Seiten
...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 and learning...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... | |
 | John Emmett Richardson - 1927 - 404 Seiten
...aspiration of the human Soul. We see then how far the monuments of genius and learning are more durable than monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not...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,... | |
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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... 
