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Page 43
... thyng lesse , then soche shadoe of vnstable glorie , & that my onely will and desire is , to further honest knowlege and to call ( awaie the studious youth in especiall ) from hauing delite in reading phantas- ticall trifles ( which ...
... thyng lesse , then soche shadoe of vnstable glorie , & that my onely will and desire is , to further honest knowlege and to call ( awaie the studious youth in especiall ) from hauing delite in reading phantas- ticall trifles ( which ...
Page xi
... thyng , by diuerse other writers before hym , customeably to haue been doen . It is a thyng of no small tyme of leasure , werke of .ix . to searche out golde in the veines vnder the yearth , or to seke precious stones in the sande , or ...
... thyng , by diuerse other writers before hym , customeably to haue been doen . It is a thyng of no small tyme of leasure , werke of .ix . to searche out golde in the veines vnder the yearth , or to seke precious stones in the sande , or ...
Page xiii
... thyng that thei read . Albeit either of them minded , to be nothyng els but a plain translatour , of the Greke into latin , but I for many causes haue thought better the said Plutarchus to folowe , then to translate , to expoune at ...
... thyng that thei read . Albeit either of them minded , to be nothyng els but a plain translatour , of the Greke into latin , but I for many causes haue thought better the said Plutarchus to folowe , then to translate , to expoune at ...
Page xiv
... thyng , yea and by you , to all children and young strieplinges , that labour & sue to attain the knowlege of good learning & honeste studies : nor yet in that world , when soche maner saiynges and actes wer by the report ...
... thyng , yea and by you , to all children and young strieplinges , that labour & sue to attain the knowlege of good learning & honeste studies : nor yet in that world , when soche maner saiynges and actes wer by the report ...
Page xv
... thyng hath prouoked persones desirous of glorie and lucre , to de- praue and corrupte this autour , to put in more then he wrote , and also to leaue out of that he wrote , which ought moste of all to haue feared them from so doing . For ...
... thyng hath prouoked persones desirous of glorie and lucre , to de- praue and corrupte this autour , to put in more then he wrote , and also to leaue out of that he wrote , which ought moste of all to haue feared them from so doing . For ...
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Page 461 - 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, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished...
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Page 462 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds...
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