It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground... The British Prose Writers - Стр. 91821Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - Страниц: 404
...to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men." So always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. LOVER OF TRUTH. OUR trumpet doth not summon, and encourage men to tear and rend one another with contradictions;... | |
| 1867 - Страниц: 396
...pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth (a hill not to be endangered, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and temand philosopher, saith, "It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the... | |
| Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - Страниц: 588
...thence to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, wanderings up and down of other men' — so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." — LORD BACON. " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy t There was an awful rainbow... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1845 - Страниц: 652
...above them. ' No pleasure," says Lord Bacon, ' is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth : (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air in always clear and serene ;) and to see the errors, , and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in... | |
| 1844 - Страниц: 276
...a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill...in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be viewed with pity, and not with swelling or pride. — BACON. THE CONSTANCY OP NATURE CONTRASTED WITH... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - Страниц: 404
...upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle, and the adventure thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth: (an hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Страниц: 226
...the adventures 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Страниц: 730
...upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle, and the adventures 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 serene}... | |
| 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... | |
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