 | Thomas Brightwell - 1840 - 416 pages
...conduct of the people. — K. 20. See Exod. xiii, 9, and note. 21. As the days of heaven upon the earth. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Lord Bacon's Essay on Truth. 24. This was fulfilled in the reign of Solomon : see 2 Chron. ix,... | |
 | John Bainbridge Smith, Richard Hooker - 1840 - 508 pages
...LITERATURE. FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. " Hurra eiKrxi/uo'Kws Kal Kara Ta£tK ytvlaQui.'" — 1 Con. xiv. 40. '' Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth ." — LORD BACON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JGF & J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 480 pages
...be ever to love a man who can only talk of votes, seats, rolls, and qualifications ! " CHAPTER XVI. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth — LORD BACON. " WELL, what do you think of our member?" was Miss Pratt's first salutation to Gertrude,... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...before it, and not in its possessions. Of the sufficiency of virtue he has said no less than this : " Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." We doubt if a loftier or more beautiful sentiment can be found in any writer of antiquity. It is true,... | |
 | 1845 - 1036 pages
...and sincere conviction that he is well entitled to do so. Lord Bacon has beautifully observed that " certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." In our view, it is equally certain that such a mind is formed to be a guiding one ; and to this class,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...so clearly fallacious. ERASMUS. " HEAVEN UPON EARTH." " IT is heaven upon earth," Lord Bacon says, " to have a man's mind move in Charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth." If the opposite of these be hell upon earth, a good many, who least imagine it, have themselves, in... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - 1842 - 730 pages
...believers are exhorted • " Certainly (says Lord Bacon in his Essays) it is heaven upon earth to haven man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." t The prophets, and even the ancient Jews, understood the Mcuiuh by this name of MIRCT i and the Mcstiah.... | |
 | 1844 - 608 pages
...light into the face of man ; and still he breathes and inspires 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." In this way every science finds its scope in Him who is the source of Truth and Beauty. Upon this subject,... | |
 | James Flint - 1844 - 354 pages
...profound observer of the true sources of happiness, so often cited, has said that it "is certainly heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity,...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." And of what this great man adds in the same paragraph the character of Col. Pickering furnishes a striking... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth: (an hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always...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,... | |
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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. 
