 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
..."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...no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantageground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene),... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - Didactic poetry, Latin - 1970 - 918 pages
...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...comparable 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,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...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...comparable 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... | |
 | Religion - 1974 - 212 pages
...vantage ground of truth—a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene, and to see the error and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below. 17. As long as we are not ever ready to sacrifice any given datum of rational science to an intuitive... | |
 | Henry Laurens - 1968 - 698 pages
...EXTRACTS from the Proceedings of the High Court of Vice-Admiralty in Charlestown, South-Carolina, &c. "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 clear and serene." Lord BACON.T "What are usually... | |
 | John Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 331 pages
...self and truth. An image borrowed from Montaigne in Bacon's discussion "Of Truth" reveals the problem: [N]o pleasure is comparable 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,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...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 standing upon the vantage ground of truth ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and... | |
 | Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 404 pages
...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 standing on the vantage ground of Truth and to see the errors, and the wanderings, and tempests, in... | |
| |
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... 
