 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pages
...clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not...civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not...civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pages
...clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not...civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not...mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upou the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business,... | |
 | Walter Henry Burton - 1828 - 84 pages
...angle equal to the old system that we owe the fine astronomical allusion in his Essay on Truth : " Certainly it is heaven upon earth to " have a man's...Providence, and " turn upon the poles of truth." to an angle in the other, the two triangles might be so applied to each other, that two sides of the one... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1829 - 570 pages
...which I would rather have written than all the volumes of all the Greek philosophers: let me read it. " Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." BARROW. Magnificent as Shakespeare. NEWTON. He who wrote tragedies ? BARROW. The same : I have lately... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...one marriage at present, there might be two, if such regulations took place. — Goldsmith. DCXLVI. It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — lard Bacon. DCXLVn. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...of one marriage at present, there might be two, if such regulations took place.—Goldsmith. DCXLVI. It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.—Lord Bacon. DCXLVII. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 340 pages
...consoling doctrine. How strange, that while, conformably with the wise observation of Lord Bacon, " it is heaven upon earth " to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in provi" dence, and turn upon the poles of truth," (s) there should be found men of ingenuity and literature,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 342 pages
...consoling doctrine. How strange, that while, conformably with the wise observation of Lord Bacon, " it is heaven upon earth " to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in provi" dence, and turn upon the poles of truth," (s) there should be found men of ingenuity and literature,... | |
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Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. 
