 ... 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 - Page 192by Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 436 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Omar Khayyam - 1904 - 268 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Logic - 1915 - 266 pages
...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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