 | Oscar Kuhns - 1910 - 178 páginas
...disputable, but that nature herself was its mother is stamped forever on its features." Gladstone, near the 1 "For have not the verses of Homer continued twentyfive...infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been destroyed and demolished." — Advancement of Learning. George Chapman compares Homer to Vergil as... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1912 - 830 páginas
...diruere, aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum.* "Have not the verses of Homer continued 2,500 years or more without the loss of a syllable or letter,...palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and destroyed ? It is not possible to have the true picture or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar; no,... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1917 - 844 páginas
...from disbelief in the moral government of a degenerate world. (d) We see then how far the monument of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. 5. Give in simple English the substance of the following passages : — (a) Nature is not at variance... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 páginas
...the desire of memory, fame, and celebration, and in effect the strength of all other human desires. With h@ 9/ f It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar; no, nor of the... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1921 - 272 páginas
...provinces. What says the greatest of their scholars and students, when he stands in the presence of books? "We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished? . . . But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of tune... | |
 | G. A. E. Bogeng - 1922 - 560 páginas
...them.' Im ,Advancement of Learning' war, auch F. Bacon, Lord Verulam zeigte es, das Buch unentbehrlich: „We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...hands. For have not the verses of Homer, continued tventy-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1926 - 504 páginas
...the 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 t It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar ; no, nor of... | |
 | John Emmett Richardson - 1927 - 404 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour - 1969 - 1452 páginas
...commentary of its own. Milton's "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit," Bacon's "monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands," Richard de Bury's panegyric of them as "wells of living waters, delightful ears of corn, combs of honey,... | |
 | Ohio State University. Alumni Association - 1921 - 542 páginas
...that they might, in fact, render the service of precedent for other alumni and friends of the school. "We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning...durable than the monuments of power or of the hands," said Bacon, speaking of books, and by inference, the gift of them. TRAUTMAN "Red" Trautman, '14, RESIGNS... | |
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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 time... 
