 It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of...  Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr - Page 2by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 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...ground of truth, a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene; and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests,... | |
 | mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854 - 318 pages
...who do seek them possess the independence I wish rather to meet with, than to confer." CHAPTEE XI. It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet saith excellently well, ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see...a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures of it below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, and to... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 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...ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests,... | |
 | Manchester papers - 1856 - 346 pages
...LAYNE. NATIONAL AND RATIONAL RECREATIONS. BY THE REV. WG BARRETT. ON CIRCUIT. BY ALBANY FONBLANQUE. " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see...to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a bill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...that beautified the sect,2 that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see...no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth," (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,)... | |
 | Edward STORROW - 1856 - 122 pages
...which ever attends the consciousness of a great and glorious change. "It is a pleasure," says Bacon, " to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon...no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth — a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always calm and serene... | |
 | Manchester papers - 1856 - 344 pages
... MANCHESTER PAPERS: km of (itosional VOL. I. " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea — n pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below,—... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...that heautified 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 ships tost upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a hattle, and the adventures... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...that beautified the sect,6 that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures7... | |
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