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.) - 1819 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
| Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men." So always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. LOVER OF TRUTH. OUR trumpet doth not summon, and encourage men to tear and rend one another with contradictions;... | |
| 1867 - 396 pages
...pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth (a hill not to be endangered, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and temand philosopher, saith, "It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the... | |
| Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - Education - 1842 - 588 pages
...thence to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, wanderings up and down of other men' — so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." — LORD BACON. " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy t There was an awful rainbow... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1845 - 652 pages
...above them. ' No pleasure," says Lord Bacon, ' is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth : (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air in always clear and serene ;) and to see the errors, , and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in... | |
| Periodicals - 1844 - 276 pages
...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, (a hill...in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be viewed with pity, and not with swelling or pride. — BACON. THE CONSTANCY OP NATURE CONTRASTED WITH... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle, and the adventure thereof below: but no pleasure is 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 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 the air is always clear and serenej — and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below :' so... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...vantage-ground of truth—(a hill not to he • -mmanded, and where the air is always clear and serene.)— aad to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, -and tempests in the vale helow :' so always that this prospect he with pity, .ml not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is... | |
| F. C - 1846 - 854 pages
...reformation." " No pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of trufi*; and to Ģee the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below." LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, BACON. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. 1846. Price One... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 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 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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