 ... present times may sort better with ancient examples than with those of the later or immediate times. And lastly, the wit of one man can no more countervail learning than one man's means can hold way with a common purse.  France, Social, Literary, Political - Página 192por Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1834Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 páginas
...sometimes that the grandchild, or other descendant, resembleth the ancestor more than the son ; so I many times occurrences of present times may sort better •with ancient examples than with those of the later or immediate times : and lastly, the wit of one man can no more countervail learning than one... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 páginas
...grandchild, or the descendant, resembleth the ancestor more than the son; so many times occurrences of the present times may sort better with ancient examples than with those of the later or immediate times. And lastly, the wit of one man can no more countervail learning than one... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 páginas
...empiric or man of business in not being provided against uncommon emergencies. " Neither," he says, " can the experience of one man's life furnish examples...latter or immediate times; and lastly, the wit of ona • [Bacon's Works, ed. 1857, iii. 263.J mail can no more countervail learning, than one man's... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 348 páginas
...grandchild, or the descendant, resembleth the ancestor more than the son; so many times occurrences of the present times may sort better with ancient examples than with those of the later or immediate times. And lastly, the wit of one man can no more countervail learning than one... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1904 - 268 páginas
...grandchild, or the descendant, resembleth the ancestor more than the son; so many times occurrences of the present times may sort better with ancient examples than with those of the later or immediate times. And lastly, the wit of one man can no more countervail learning than one... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1912 - 746 páginas
...experience of one man's life cannot furnish examples and precedents for the events of another man's life; so many times occurrences of present times may sort...better with ancient examples, than with those of the later or immediate times : and the wit of one man can no more countervail learning, than one man's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1915 - 266 páginas
...events of one man's life : for, as it happeneth sometimes that the grandchild, or other descendants, resembleth the ancestor more than the son ; so many...ancient examples than with those of the latter or immediaate times; and lastly, the wit of one man can no more countervail learning than one man's means... | |
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