 | Colin Burrows - Science - 1990 - 580 pages
...vegetation change. ' . . . no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of Truth . . . and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below.' Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Truth, 1625 Preface This book is about ideas on the nature and causes of... | |
 | Colin Burrows - Science - 1990 - 580 pages
...vegetation change. ' . . . no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of Truth . . . and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below.' Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Truth, 1625 Preface This book is about ideas on the nature and causes of... | |
 | John Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 331 pages
...to the 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 errors, and...wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below. 5 Bacon confidently distinguishes high truth from low error, but despite the authoritarian, indeed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 1995 - 304 pages
...the sentiments whenever he surrenders himself to his genius, as when he writes in the first Essay, "Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence and turn upon the poles of truth." How profound the observation in this passage! "This same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - Philosophy - 1996 - 620 pages
...'love-making or wooing of it' which was for him 'the sovereign good of human nature'. 'Certainly,' he added, 'it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth.' With such happy thoughts we may now leave this 'deservedly miserable' man. Enough has perhaps been... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman, fssays, "Of Truth" (1597-1 625).... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...tempests, in the vale below'; so10 always that this prospect" be with pity,12 and not with swelling13 or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest14 in providence, and turn upon the poles* of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical... | |
 | J. D. Kroft - Reference - 2000 - 310 pages
...— Eiert Hubbard If you are out to describe truth, leave elegance to the tailor. —Alferf Einstein It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. —Francis Bacon Style will find readers and shape convictions, while mere truth gathers dust on the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...Wandrings, and Mists, and Tempests, in the vale below: So alwaies, that this prospect, be with Pitty, and not with Swelling, or Pride. Certainly, it is Heaven upon Earth, to have a Mans Minde 60 Move in Charitie, Rest in Providence, and Turne upon the Poles of Truth. [B3] To passe... | |
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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... 
