 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...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 state,...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." Such is the extent of the outline, such the symmetry in the arrangement, such the beauty of the style.... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pages
...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,...upon : or a fort or commanding ground, for strife or contention : or a shop, for profit or sale, and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...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,...upon : or a fort or commanding ground, for strife or contention : or a shop, for profit or sale, and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...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,...estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 584 pages
...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...ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."*... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 546 pages
...rest a search" ing and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse for a " wandering and variable mind to walk up and " down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state,...of the Creator, and the relief of man's " estate." If the intricacies of a court are neither discovered nor illustrated with the same happiness as the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a Terrasscfor a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state,...storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of mans estate. ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING . , 53 J have no purpose to enter into a laudative of learning,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...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,...sale ; and not a rich storehouse, | for the glory ofjthe_Creator, ^nd the relief of man's | i estate. * But this is that which will indeed dignify and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 554 pages
...rest a searching and " restless spirit ; or a tarra.ss for a wandering and variable " mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower '' of state...; or a shop " for profit or sale ; and not a rich store- house, for the glory " of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." CONDITIONS. I. This... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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...ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate."... | |
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... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: 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... 
