 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 680 pages
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 | Charles Woodruff Shields - 1861 - 108 pages
...and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the...prospect be with pity and not with swelling or pride." But, when the survey is to be for use rather than pleasure, even the bird's-eye view of a battle-field,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 pages
...the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth," (a hill not to be commanded, and where...wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below ; " 8 so always that this prospect be the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth — (a hill not to be commanded, and where...to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and temfiesrs in the vale below :' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...the face of his chosen. The poet that beautified the sect that was otherwise inferior to the rest,1 saith yet excellently well : It is a pleasure to stand...Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...Adventures. Fortunes. ' She smiled with silver eheer, And wished me fuir adventure for the year.' — commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene),...wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below;' soi always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...from that high cliff and platform, which is more amply sketched in the Essay of Truth, thus : — " The poet that beautified the sect that was otherwise...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." And so that it be done by a Solomon of the New Atlantis, who wears " an aspect as if he pitied men."... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...&c.' Adventures : hazards, bold performances. " Thine a the adventure, thine the victory." — Dryden. the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the...Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's [15) *~ r~----^j -^ - -- - --- - -^ - ^ -- Vantage-ground : advantageous ground — a place or position... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantageground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the...tempests, in the vale below; "so always that this prospect he with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upcn earth to have a man's mind... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantageground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the...and tempests, in the vale below ;" so always that thU prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have... | |
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground... 
