 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 strani
...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...to see " the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tem" pests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospest be with pity, and not. with swelling or... | |
 | 1825 - 594 strani
...light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspired) light into the face of his chosen. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." (LoiiD BACON.) I could exceedingly wish, Mr. Editor, that some of your correspondents would undertake,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 strani
...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...to see " the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tem" pests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospest be with pity, and not with swelling or... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 strani
...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...mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upou the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business,... | |
 | Walter Henry Burton - 1828 - 84 strani
...angle equal to the old system that we owe the fine astronomical allusion in his Essay on Truth : " Certainly it is heaven upon earth to " have a man's...Providence, and " turn upon the poles of truth." to an angle in the other, the two triangles might be so applied to each other, that two sides of the one... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1829 - 570 strani
...which I would rather have written than all the volumes of all the Greek philosophers: let me read it. " Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." BARROW. Magnificent as Shakespeare. NEWTON. He who wrote tragedies ? BARROW. The same : I have lately... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 strani
...one marriage at present, there might be two, if such regulations took place. — Goldsmith. DCXLVI. It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — lard Bacon. DCXLVn. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 strani
...of one marriage at present, there might be two, if such regulations took place.—Goldsmith. DCXLVI. It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.—Lord Bacon. DCXLVII. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 340 strani
...consoling doctrine. How strange, that while, conformably with the wise observation of Lord Bacon, " it is heaven upon earth " to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in provi" dence, and turn upon the poles of truth," (s) there should be found men of ingenuity and literature,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 342 strani
...consoling doctrine. How strange, that while, conformably with the wise observation of Lord Bacon, " it is heaven upon earth " to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in provi" dence, and turn upon the poles of truth," (s) there should be found men of ingenuity and literature,... | |
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost 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... 
