 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...  Essays moral, economical and political - Page 11by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Robert Hall, Joseph Belcher - 1858
...see a battle, and the adventurers thereof, below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air ia always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the... | |
 | Social Science - 1860
...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 TAKINGS AND LEAVINGS. 329 Truth (a hill not to he commanded, and where the air is always clear and... | |
 | Charles Woodruff Shields - Philosophy - 1861 - 96 pages
...and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the...prospect be with pity and not with swelling or pride." But, when the survey is to be for use rather than pleasure, even the bird's-eye view of a battle-field,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Alexander Spiers, Basil Montagu - Literary Collections - 1861 - 360 pages
...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...wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below ; " 8 so always that this prospect be the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Biography & Autobiography - 1862 - 715 pages
...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...to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and temfiesrs in the vale below :' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864
...Adventures. Fortunes. ' She smiled with silver eheer, And wished me fuir adventure for the year.' — commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene),...wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below;' soi always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven... | |
 | Charles Whitlock Moore - 1864
...reputation itself." Equally so the great writer from whom we have more than once quoted — Bacon — " No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.1" Better still tho sacred writer Esdras, " Great is Truth and mighty above all things." And... | |
 | William Sharp - 1865
...thereoI" below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standmg upon the vantage ground at truth, ia hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) anil to see the errors and wandermgs, and mists and tempests, m the vale below .' so always that this... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - Drama - 1867 - 601 pages
...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...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." And so that it be done by a Solomon of the New Atlantis, who wears " an aspect as if he pitied men."... | |
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