 | 1836 - 440 pages
...be ever to love a man who can only talk of votes, seats, rolls, and qualifications !" CHAPTER XVI. ' Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." LORD nACON. "WELL, what do you think of our member?" was Miss Pratt's first salutation to Gertrude,... | |
 | Elizabeth Sandford - 1836 - 470 pages
...in truth is a Christian happiness. For, certainly, as the great philosopher of our country says, " It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."* The love of truth is evidenced in the lesser as well as in the graver transactions of life, — in... | |
 | William Hull (perpetual curate of St. Gregory's, Norwich.) - 1836 - 126 pages
...only the majesty, but the benignity of the Divine administration. " Certainly," as Lord Bacon says, "it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." While querulous men are, at once, indulging their bad passions, and taking credit for superior piety,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1836 - 520 pages
...consoling doctrine. How strange, that while, conformably with the wise observation of Lord Bacon, " it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth '," there should be found men of ingenuity and literature, who dazzle by their talents and delude by... | |
 | 1836 - 554 pages
...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. Certainly,...is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charily, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." — (Bacon.) p. vi. Now, all this is... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pages
...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. Certainly,...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Bacon. CONTENTMENT. — It is the general misfortune not to be content with what we have; not to... | |
 | 1838 - 488 pages
...philosophers, Francis Bacon, in the following energetic sentence, — " Certainly it is heaven and earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." As perspicuity should always be the marked characteristic of a report, we shall in this digested analysis,... | |
 | 1838 - 574 pages
...symptoms in the present state of society, this is the most frightful. ' Certainly,' says Lord Bacon, ' it is Heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity' — but he adds also, ' to rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.' But what truth can... | |
 | 1838 - 728 pages
...symptoms in the present state of society, this is the most frightful. ' Certainly,' says Lord Bacon, ' it is Heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity' — but he adds also, ' to rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.' But what truth can... | |
 | 518 pages
...SKETCH THE FOURTH— THE COUNTRY PARSON. " It Is Indeed a heaven upon earth, to see a man's mind mov« in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."— LORD BACON. Sydney Smith's fancy sketch of the machinery of a first-class clerical novel was on this... | |
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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. 
