 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 588 pages
...vantage-ground of Trutht and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests of the vale beneath ; so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling, or pride." BACON'S ESSAYS; I perfectly agree with a philosophical writer, whom I cannot always approve, when he... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 586 pages
...vantage-ground oiTrutht and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests of the vale beneath ; so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling, or pride." BACON'S ESIAYS; I perfectly agree with a philosophical writer, whom I cannot always approve, when he... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene :) and to see the errors, and wandrings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below : so always...of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of mans' nature, and that mixture... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. SIR WALTER RALEGH. • i ' . ' CERTAINLY it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. .„ , , .... LORD BACON. IT will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...below; but 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. So always," he adds, " that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." Act i Labores jucundi.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...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.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...Truth (an 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...of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those who practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...Truth (an 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...of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those who practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...air is always clear and serene : and to see " the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tem" pests, in the vale below :" so always, that this prospect...civil business ; it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and nun ul dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that... | |
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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. 
