 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...clear and serene :) and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below :" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...in the certainty of truth, and from thence to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labors, and wanderings up and down of other men." So always...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. LOVER OF TRUTH. OUR trumpet doth not summon, and encourage men to tear and rend one another with contradictions... | |
 | Augusta M. Wicks - 1845 - 214 pages
...higher." Oh, how incomparable your happiness, both here and hereafter ! For " it is heaven upon earth to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...and serene} — and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below :' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...and serene} — and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below :' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not...is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in clArity, rest in providence, ami turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - 704 pages
...nature of a stumble."204 "Our very walking," as Goethe puts it, "is a series of falls." Bacon writes, "certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of the earth." Shelley's mind moved in charity, but turned anywhere except upon the poles of the earth.... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...seriousness to the observation. The section culminates in another weighty and 'incontrovertible' sentence: Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. [VI, 378] The development so far discussed is contained within a single extended paragraph. In this... | |
 | Frederick Charles Copleston, Conference for the Study of Political Thought - 1983 - 257 pages
...paper. As Bacon says, so long as one contemplates the errors of others with pity rather than pride "it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." IV John Locke is a more ambiguous figure in the history of modern European thought than Bacon. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...the sentiments whenever he surrenders himself to his genius, as when he writes in the first Essay, "Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence and turn upon the poles of truth." How profound the observation in this passage! "This same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth... | |
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... (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, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. 
