 | William Sharp - 1853 - Страниц: 286
...old before them." These eminent writers only confirm what LORD BACON had long before declared. — " The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a...our own times, not to the youth of the world, which it enjoyed among the ancients ; for that age, though with respect to us, it be ancient and greater,... | |
 | William Sharp - 1856 - Страниц: 384
...old before them." These eminent writers only confirm what Lord Bacon had long before declared. — " The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a...our own times, not to the youth of the world, which it enjoyed among the ancients; for that age, though with respect to us, it be ancient and greater,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - Страниц: 846
...and almost incongruous to the word ; » Novum Organum, \. Aph. T9, 80. -f Playfair. for the old-age and length of days of the world should in reality...our own times, not to the youth of the world which it enjoyed among the ancients ; for that age, though with respect to us it be ancient and greater,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - Страниц: 482
...and almost incongruous to the word ; * Nomm Organum, i. Aph. 79, 80. t Playfair. ' for the old-age and length of days of the world should in reality...our own times, not to the youth of the world which it enjoyed among the ancients ; for that age, though with respect to us it be ancient and greater,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - Страниц: 838
...indeed thoroughly opposed to antiquity, and epigrammatically exposed the fallacy of undue reverence. "The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a very idle thing," said he, " and almost incongruous to the word ; for the old-age and length of days of the world should... | |
 | 1887 - Страниц: 984
...bowlder, And whispered, " She'd have surely slipped if Ar'd been here to hold her." In the Old Days. " The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a...accounted antiquity, and ought to be attributed to our own tiroes, not to the youth of the world which it enjoyed among the ancients : for that age, though with... | |
 | William Sharp - 1874 - Страниц: 848
...old before them." These eminent writers only confirm what Lord Bacon had long before declared : — " The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a...our own times, not to the youth of the world, which it enjoyed among the ancients ; for that age, though with respect to us, it be ancient and greater,... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1880 - Страниц: 392
...be postponed to this. — Maxims and Ohservations. DCXLVIII. UTTACHMENT TO ANTIQUITY OR NOVELTY. — The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a...our own times, not to the youth of the world, which it enjoyed among the ancients ; for that age, though with respect to us it be ancient and greater,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1881 - Страниц: 868
...almost incongruous to the •word; for the old-age and length of days of the world should in reality oe accounted antiquity, and ought to be attributed to...our own times, not to the youth of the world which it enjoyed among the ancients ; for that age, though with respect to us it be ancient and greater,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - Страниц: 558
...eminently positive, and hence entirely modern. Nothing could be more thoroughly opposed to antiquity: ' The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a...our own times, not to the youth of the world which it enjoyed among the ancients; for that age, though with respect to us it be ancient and greater, yet... | |
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The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a very idle thing, and almost incongruous to the word ; for the old age and length of days of the world should in reality be accounted antiquity, and ought to be attributed to our own times, not to the youth... 
