 | 1845 - 562 pages
...may we rise, step by step, to a more lofty knowledge ; which, if we be right minded, ' will not be a tower of state for a proud mind to ' raise itself...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.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straightly conjoined and united... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...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 walk up and down...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... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths - 1846 - 440 pages
...knowledge being in his view " not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale, but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and t^ie relief of man-s estate." BALARD... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths - 1846 - 462 pages
...knowledge being in his view "not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit and sale, but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." BALARD... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and aown with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud...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. —... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...mind to walk up and down with a fail prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itselt upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife...shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, fos the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. Bui this is that which will indeed dignify... | |
 | 1744 - 596 pages
...for a prey. KNOWLEDGE is not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud man to raise himself upon ; or a fort of commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, — a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down,...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. " It is the presence or absence of this last consideration which gives its real character to intellectual... | |
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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... 
