 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 546 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort or " commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or " a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, " for the glory 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
...raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich 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
...profit or 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 exalt knowledge, if contemplation andjactipn may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been ; a conjunction... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 554 pages
...commanding ground, for strife and contention ; 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 Work will be printed in the best manner upon superfine laid paper, demy 8vo. and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of...knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of the... | |
 | 1829 - 592 pages
...itself upon : or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of...Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this ia that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemptation and action may be more nearly... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1826 - 548 pages
...non tanquam in fsece Romuli."(a) And in considering the peccant humours of learning, he says, " This will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of the... | |
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1830 - 390 pages
...seldom sincerely to give a true account " of 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 UMI may be more nearly " and straitly conjoined and united together, than they have. « been."... | |
 | Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society - 1830 - 398 pages
...seldom sincerely to give a true account " of 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 may be more nearly " and straitly conjoined and united together, than they have " been." * To... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not, a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.'. . LOUD BACON. Advancement of Learning. Works, ii. SI. good man, is one that considers what are the... | |
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... 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 state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife... 
