 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...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 upsn the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - Homeopathy - 1851 - 746 pages
...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...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 the... | |
 | 1851 - 724 pages
...in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no plea-ure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground...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 the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...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 of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene),... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...a pleasure to stand upon the shore,' says Lord Bacon,' and to watch the ships tossed upon the sea ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon...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,... | |
 | David Thomas - 468 pages
...castle, and to see a battle, and the adventurers thereof, below ; but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth — a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene — to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests, in the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...to fee a Battle, and the Adventures thereof, below : But no Pleafure is comparable to the ftanding upon the vantage Ground of Truth ; (A Hill not to be commanded, and where the Air is always clear and ferene) : and to fee the Errors, and Wanderings, and Mifts, and Tempefts, in... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pages
...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 of truth — a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene... | |
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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 of... 
