 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
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...victory." — Dryden. 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,... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventuret 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 errort and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 458 pages
...pleasure to stand in the window of a Castle, and to see a Battaile, 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 Ayre is alwaies cleare and serene;) And to see the Errours,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures7 thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to bo 1 As one would. At pleasure ; unrettrained. * Unpleasing. Unpleasant ; distasteftd.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 472 pages
...to stand in the window of a Castle, and to see a Battaile, and the Adventures thereof, below: But Ho pleasure is comparable, to the standing, upon the -vantage ground of Truth : (A hill not to be commanded, and where the Ayre is alwaies cleare and serene ;) A nd to see the Errours,... | |
 | 1869 - 100 pages
...mony lengthen'd sage advices The husband frae the wife despises" — And, as my lord Bacon saith, " No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth," I am compelled to acknowledge that Tarn seems to have disregarded these gentle warnings, and delicate... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to 44 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,... | |
 | 1871
...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,... | |
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