 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pagina’s
...thereof below; " but no pleasure is comparable to the stand" ing 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 er" rors and wanderings, and mists, and tem" pests, in the vale below :" so always that this "prospect... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pagina’s
...thereof below : but no pleasure is " comparable to the standing upon the vantage u 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 prospect be with pity, and not with swelling... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pagina’s
...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...it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move iu charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1820 - 200 pagina’s
...de* " scry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, " and wanderings up and down of other men." So always that this prospect be with pity, and not...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. 6. God hath made all things beautiful or decent in the true return of their seasons; also he hath placed... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pagina’s
...adventares 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...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. The pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pagina’s
...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...move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon tbe poles of truth. The pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business,... | |
 | 1904 - 738 pagina’s
...English Liberalism. He was a living instance of the frame of mind depicted in Bacon's fine aphorism, " certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." We may all learn from history the lesson which Lord Acton apprehended perhaps more clearly than any... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 396 pagina’s
...be ever to love a man who can only talk of votes, seats, rolls, and qualifications !" CHAPTER XVI. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. • LoRD BACoN. " WELL, what do you think of our member ?" was Miss Pratt's first salutation to Gertrude,... | |
 | 1824 - 726 pagina’s
...to soc a battle j 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...serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mi its, and tempests in the vale below. — Bacon. No. 36.] SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1824. f Price 3d. I DOVE... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
