Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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... "
The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ... - Page 3
by Francis Bacon - 1818 - 290 pages
Full view - About this book

The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ...

Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...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,...
Full view - About this book

Dialogues on the First Principles of the Newtonian System, Volume 4

Walter Henry Burton - Astronomy - 1828 - 84 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, Volume 5

Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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....
Full view - About this book

Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Letters to a Friend: On the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties, of ..., Volume 2

Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1829 - 342 pages
...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,...
Full view - About this book

Letters to a Friend: On the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties, of ..., Volume 2

Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1829 - 340 pages
...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,...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF