Francis Bacon Quote

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.


Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.