 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 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...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." State what particular form of error each of the above metaphors, viz. the couch — the terrace —... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 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...strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — Lord Bacon.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...down with a fair prospect ,- or a tower of state, fur a proud mind to raise itself upon ,• or a furl or commanding ground, for strife and contention ;...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. /f .UH \\IM. K< OF I.LVHMM. 174 / have no purpose to enter into a laudative of learning, or to make... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrasse 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."* And the same ideas run all through his works from the first page to the last. Thus in the Essay " Of... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 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...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. " It is commonly found that men have views to fame and ostentation, sometimes in uttering, and sometimes... | |
 | 1849 - 736 pages
...to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state...profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glury of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."* And the same ideas run all through his works... | |
 | 1850 - 824 pages
...to rest a searching 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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down »ith a feir prosp ږ% He then weighs the dignity of knowledge " in the balance with other things," and takes the value by... | |
 | Seba Smith - 1850 - 212 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."... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 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,...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." * The true lover of knowledge, then, is not one who is merely seeking " variety or delight" to pass... | |
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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... 
