 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 634 pages
...tempest on the sea ; or to be safe in a fortified tower and to see two armies joining in battle on a plain ; but it is a pleasure incomparable for the mind of man to be settled, landed, fortified in the certainty of truth ; and from thence to descry and behold the errors, perturbations,... | |
 | 1852 - 650 pages
...Lucretius, writes thus : " 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...labours, and wanderings up and down, of other men." And after the same strain writes the great church-scholar of Queen Elizabeth's reign, in the concluding... | |
 | 1913 - 582 pages
...describeth elegantly: 'it is a view of delight (saith he) to staiid or walk upon theshore 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 i'lain. But it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man to be settled, landed, and fortified... | |
 | Max freiherr von Waldberg - 1913 - 374 pages
...describeth elegantly: clt 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...fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a | lain. But it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man to be settled, landed, and fortified... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1915 - 266 pages
...aequora ventis, etc.1 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...tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain ; but tt is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man 'to be settled, landed, and fortified in the certainty... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pages
...Lucretius describes elegantly: 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 in the certainty of truth; and from thence to discover and behold the errors, perturbations, labors, and wanderings up and down of other men. Lastly,... | |
 | Ruth Hill - 2000 - 308 pages
...describethe elegantly... '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...labours, and wanderings up and down of other men'. (Advancement, bk. 1, ch. 8, art. 5, p. 58) See the complete sense in Lucretius, De rerum natura, bk.... | |
 | George Eliot - 2000 - 580 pages
...Natura (u. no). Bacon 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...certainty of truth; and from thence to descry and behold errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men." Hence Johnson's calculations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...ventis, &c.0 '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 battles0 join upon a plain. But it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man to be settled, landed,... | |
 | Don Fowler - 2002 - 550 pages
...saepe solebat spectare ex illa rigidi certamina Martis (with Hollis ad loc.). Bacon's paraphrase is 'to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain'. But here we do not have a siege (which would not be tua sine parte pericli)* and we think rather of Homer's... | |
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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... 
