 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. — COMUS. or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea, or to be...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... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 586 pages
...ventis,' &c. " '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...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...aequora ventis, &c. " It is a view of delight," saith he, " to stand or walk upon the shore side, and see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea, or to be...thence to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labors, and wanderings up and down of other men." So always that this prospect be with pity, and not... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1845 - 216 pages
...discoveries, thus writes :—" It is a view of delight 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 town, and to see two battles join upon a plain ; but it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1842 - 582 pages
...to stand or walk upon tho shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea, or to ne in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...hattles join upon a plain ; hut it is a pleasure incomparahle, for the mind of man to he settled, lauded, and fortified in the certainty of truth; and from thence to descry and hehold the errors, perturhations, lahours and wanderings up and down of other men." Lastly, leaving... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1847 - 524 pages
...actions of men, who now slumber in the mouldering tomb of oblivion ; if, as Bacon hath observed, "there is a pleasure incomparable for the mind of man to...labours, and wanderings up and down of other men," how much more doth it become us to seek instruction from those more noble ideas, which religion has... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...perpetually interchangeable. It is a view of delight, to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea ; or to be...fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain i but it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man to be settled, landed, and fortified in the... | |
 | 1848 - 914 pages
...discoveries, thus writes : — " Ft is a view of delight 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 town, and to see two battles join upon a plain ; but it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1850 - 330 pages
...laborem — It is a view of delight to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed upon the sea ; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain ; or it is sweet, from a post of safety, to review the labors of other men beyond the seas — if there... | |
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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... 
