 It is a view of delight (saith he) to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain. But it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man...  The Leodiensian; or Leeds grammar school magazine - Page 8by Leeds grammar sch - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...tossed with tempest upon the sea ; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain. But it is a pleasure incomparable for the mind...labours, and wanderings up and down of other men. learning man excelkth man in that, wherein man excelleth beasts ; that by learning man ascendeth to... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...tossed with tempest upon the sea ; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain. But it is a pleasure incomparable for the mind...labours, and wanderings up and down of other men. 1 Lastly, leaving the vulgar arguments — that by learning man excelleth man in that, wherein man... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1820 - 200 pages
...a castle, and to see two battles join upon a " plain: but it is a pleasure incomparable for th« " mind of man to be settled, landed, and fortified " in the certainty of truth, and from thence to de* " scry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, " and wanderings up and down of other men."... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...tossed with tempest upon the sea ; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain ; but it is a pleasure incomparable for the...fortified in the certainty of truth ; and from thence to decry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men.' " (b)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...tossed " with tempest upon the sea ; or to be in a fortified " tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain ; " but it is a pleasure incomparable, for the..." man to be settled, landed, and fortified in the cer" tainty of truth ; and from thence to descry and " behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and... | |
 | 1826 - 446 pages
...science. It is an old maxim, " buy truth and sell it not," and the poet Lucretius very happily says, " it is a pleasure incomparable for the mind of man,...labours, and wanderings up and down of other men." The investigation of nature cannot fail to be valuable. It engages all our intellectual faculties to... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...tossed with tempest upon the sea; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain; but it is a pleasure incomparable for the mind...fortified in the certainty of truth ; and from thence to decry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men.' " (b)... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...tossed " with tempest upon the sea ; or to be in a fortified " tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain ; " but it is a pleasure incomparable, for the..." man to be settled, landed, and fortified in the cer" tainty of truth ; and from thence to descry and " behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...tossed with tempest upon the sea : or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain ; but it is a pleasure incomparable, for the...labours, and wanderings up and down of other men." " So always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 586 pages
...tossed with tempest upon the sea, or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain. But it is a pleasure incomparable for the mind...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... | |
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