 ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tarrasse, 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...  Hansard's Parliamentary Debates - Page 685by Great Britain. Parliament - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1852 - 360 pages
...susceptible of divine impressions." " Some men seem as if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a variable and wandering mind to walk up and down upon, with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 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 spirit; or a tarrasso for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 328 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 spirit ; or a terras for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state... | |
 | William Maxwell Wood - 1853 - 316 pages
...rapid as it has been, is yet sufficient to show that it is not sought, in the words of Lord Bacon, "as a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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 spirit; or a terras for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state... | |
 | 1857 - 216 pages
...fallen away from God, by the operation of truth upon the mind and character. " Knowledge is not then a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 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 spirit ; or a terras for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1859 - 398 pages
...account of these gifts 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 ft wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for... | |
 | Harvard University - 1863 - 50 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 spirit ; or a tarrasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
 | Harvard University - 1863 - 40 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 spirit ; or a tarrasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
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