| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...various Events thereof below. But no Tleafure is cornfar able to theftanding upon the Vant ageGround of TRUTH; (a Hill not to be commanded, and where the Air is always clear and ferene ; ) and from thence to behold the Errors and Wandringsy the Mifts and Tempefts in the Vale beneath... | |
| James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1792 - 390 pages
...The personalities it contains, art Ur tem wlut , READING MEMORANDUMS. * * - ' • ' . .For i..-i Bee. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (an hill not to be comjnanded, and where the air is always -clear and sejene,) and to see the errors,... | |
| 1801 - 446 pages
...a pleasure to stand upon the shore and see ships tost upon the sea: — a pleasure to stand, on the window of a castle and to see a battle, and the adventures...to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, and to see the error and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below." So always that this... | |
| CHARLES MAYO, L.L.B - 1804 - 586 pages
...liberties unimpaired to posterity.* " Hor. Carm. 3. a. * It is observed by a writer of high repute, " that no pleasure is comparable to the standing " upon the vantage ground of truth; and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and " tempests in the vale below." •'—No period... | |
| Mark Noble - 1806 - 428 pages
...and shrinks from men. No pleasure is " comparable to the standing upon the advantage " of truth ; an hill not to be commanded, and " where the air is always clear and serene. A lie . " serves for dissimulation, for perfidiousnefis, and " almost * The following extract is from... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 588 pages
...shore, and to see ships tossed on the sea : a pleasure, to ttarid at the window of a castle, and to sec a battle, and the adventures thereof, below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing; on the vantage-ground of Trutht and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests of the... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 586 pages
...shore, and to see ships tossed on the sea : a pleasure, to •tand at the window of a castle, and to sec a battle, and the adventures thereof, below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground oiTrutht and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests of the... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...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...comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth :" (an hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene :) and to see the errors,... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is... | |
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