William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
1 Corinthians 13:1.
Tyndale's translations
“A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
— Francis Bacon, book Essays
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Essays (1625)
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George Orwell book Keep the Aspidistra Flying
opening lines, I Corinthians xiii (adapted)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
Context: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. … And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money.
“The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.”
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) German philosopher and anthropologist
Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 68
Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy (1839)
Bruce Fairchild Barton book The Man Nobody Knows
Source: The Man Nobody Knows (1924), Ch. 5 : His Advertisements
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Alexis De Tocqueville book The Old Regime and the Revolution
Original text: On voit que l'histoire est une galerie de tableaux où il y a peu d'originaux et beaucoup de copies. <br class="br">Variant translation: History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. <br class="br">Old Regime (1856), p. 88 http://books.google.com/books?id=N50aibeL8BAC&pg=PA88&vq=%22history,+it+is+easily+perceived%22&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1 <br class="br">1850s and later
“Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
Referring to London.
Memoirs (1796)
