 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - Страниц: 538
...eminently positive, and hence entirely modern. Nothing eould be more thoroughly opposed to antiquity: ' The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a...and length of days of the world should in reality he accounted antiquity, and onght to be attributed to our own times, not to the youth of the world... | |
 | William Sharp - 1885 - Страниц: 300
...represented." Appendix. * 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,... | |
 | Samuel Robert Smith - 1892 - Страниц: 198
...VALLEY BY WH PUTNAM, PH. D. " The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a very idle tiling, anil almost incongruous to the word ; for the old age and...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 - 1894 - Страниц: 244
...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,... | |
 | 1887 - Страниц: 980
...bowlder, And whispered, " She'd have surely slipped if he'd been here to hold her." In the Old Days. " 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... | |
 | Lars Magnusson - 1997 - Страниц: 264
...other claims to our notice. I must here quote some passages from Lord Bacon, which seem much in point: 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... 
