| William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - Страниц: 512
...acknowledgments to that Being from whom this and all other mercies flow." Lord Bacon has said, that "it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and III. T turn upon the poles of truth." Jenner is a striking illustration of the truth of this remark.... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Страниц: 226
...thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth — (a hill not to be -- commanded, and where the air is always clear and serenej — and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below :' so... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Страниц: 732
...vantage-ground of truth—(a hill not to he • -mmanded, and where the air is always clear and serene.)— aad to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, -and tempests in the vale helow :' so always that this prospect he with pity, .ml not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is... | |
| F. C - 1846 - Страниц: 854
...reformation." " No pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of trufi*; and to «ee the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below." LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, BACON. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. 1846. Price One... | |
| 1847 - Страниц: 796
...literary honors. Yet ' no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth ; a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.' It is not as literary athlete that we contend in the educational arena. We have no secular interests... | |
| Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - Страниц: 704
...nature of a stumble."204 "Our very walking," as Goethe puts it, "is a series of falls." Bacon writes, "certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of the earth." Shelley's mind moved in charity, but turned anywhere except upon the poles of the earth.... | |
| Lisa Jardine - 1974 - Страниц: 300
...seriousness to the observation. The section culminates in another weighty and 'incontrovertible' sentence: Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. [VI, 378] The development so far discussed is contained within a single extended paragraph. In this... | |
| 1974 - Страниц: 212
...certainty it can have. Mo pleasure is comp'ar'abk lA (h? standing upon the vantage ground of truth—a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene, and to see the error and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below. 17. As long as we are not ever ready... | |
| Henry Laurens - 1968 - Страниц: 698
...South-Carolina, &c. "No Pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage Ground of Truth: A Hill not to be commanded, and where the Air is always clear and serene." Lord BACON.T "What are usually called Libels undoubtedly keep great men in Awe, and are some Check... | |
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