 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tem" pests, in the vale below :" so always that this prospest be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly,...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowlged... | |
 | 1825 - 594 pages
...light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspired) light into the face of his chosen. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." (LoiiD BACON.) I could exceedingly wish, Mr. Editor, that some of your correspondents would undertake,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...with pity, and not. with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's miud move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowlged... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pages
...that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pages
...that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. « To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 pages
...that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | 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...in 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
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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. 
