 | J. B. Leishman - 2005 - 264 pages
...of Learning: It is a view of delight (saith he) to stand or walk upon the sea 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. Shakespeare comes very close to this formula in sonnet 91, by no means one of his least distinguished... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1920 - 96 pages
...tcquora 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...labours, and wanderings up and down of other men. 6. Lastly, leaving the vulgar arguments, that by learning man excelleth man in that wherein man excelleth... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...science. It is an old maxim, " buy truth and sell k 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 - 1844 - 586 pages
...vcntli,"ie. "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...and to see two battles join upon a plain ; but it is pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man to be settled, landed and fortified in the certainty of... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 488 pages
...ventis, etc. " 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, * From The Advancement of Learning, ~ If and to see two battles join upon a plain. But it is a pleasure... | |
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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... 
