 | James Pycroft - 1843 - 256 pages
...upon ; or a Fort or commanding Ground for Strife and Contention ; or a Shop for Profit or Sale ; but a rich Storehouse for the Glory of the Creator and the relief of man's Estate^." Many things concealed from the wise and prudent, I shall be reminded, are revealed unto babes ; but... | |
 | Edward Forbes - 1843 - 32 pages
...; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; — but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." IHE END. Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, Bed Lion Court, Fleet Street. V ... | |
 | 1844 - 276 pages
...tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground, for strife, or contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pages
...raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contentioni 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." — Bacon. NEW YORK : PUBLISHED BY SEARS & ч W AL K ER, 114 FULTON STREET. BOSTON: SAXTON AND PEIRCE,... | |
 | 1871 - 870 pages
...raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding 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." J This error of learning was not peculiar to the age of Bacon. No one who watches the drift of opinion... | |
 | 1851 - 620 pages
...upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale; but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — Lord Bacon. THE THRONE OF GRACE. If yon are a Christian, the throne of grace is yours. Your Father... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...account of the gift of their reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — Bacon's Advancement of Learning. 14. Would I then withhold the Bible from the cottager and the... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1845 - 144 pages
...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...the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."—In brief, learning is sought as the means to an end,—and that end is too usually a worldly... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower %f state for a proud mind to raise itself upon : or a...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." " For our undertaking, we judge it of such a nature, that it were highly unworthy to pollute it with... | |
 | 1845 - 608 pages
...— or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention — or a shop for profit or sale — hut a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." * Lord Bacon — Connected with this pnrt of the article, we earuestlv recommend to our readers, a... | |
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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... 
