 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...  The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Page 102edited by - 1792Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 796 pages
...the consciousness of maintaining the right is a richer reward than the highest literary honors. Yet ' 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 ; and to see the errors... | |
 | George Jabet - Character - 1848 - 284 pages
...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, and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests in the sea below ;'f so * New Atlantis.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but e t a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene; and to see the errors, and... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...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), and to see the errors,... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | William Sharp - Diseases - 1853 - 286 pages
...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,) and to see the errors and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below: but ike unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and co a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene; and to see the errors, and... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures of it 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 that... | |
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