 ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect...  The Christian Remembrancer - Page 4281843Full view - About this book
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1829 - 464 pages
...ornament und reputation ; sometimes toenable us to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of our gift of reason, for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a couch... | |
 | Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society - 1830 - 398 pages
...reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to „ victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre " and profession ; and seldom sincerely...their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men "... But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt " knowledge, if contemplation and actici... | |
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1830 - 390 pages
...reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to „ victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre •' and profession ; and seldom sincerely...their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men " . . . But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt " knowledge, if contemplation and :irt... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 pages
...contradiction ; and most times, for lucre and profession; and seldom, sincerely to give a true'account.of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tanisse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect; or a tower of... | |
 | 1844 - 276 pages
...to triumph in wit and contradiction ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift oj reason to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge n couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...is ever delightful in the apprehensions of some faculty : it fears no man, nor no thing, nor is it were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect; or a tower of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account lowing the shadowy moonlight ; let him wander in her sylvan suburbs, or linger in her cloistered halls;... | |
 | 1835 - 298 pages
...followed in the University, — the philosophy of Aristotle; real knowledge being in his view " not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 42 pages
...ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession , and seldom sincerely to...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state... | |
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