 ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the 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.  Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott. Text only, with ... - Page 2by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879Full view - About this book
 | 1825 - 594 pages
...light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspired) light into the face of his chosen. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." (LoiiD BACON.) I could exceedingly wish, Mr. Editor, that some of your correspondents would undertake,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...standing upon the vantage " ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and " where the air is always clear and serene), and to see " the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tem" pests, in the vale below :" so always that this prospest be with pity, and not with swelling or... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...standing upon the vantage " ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and " where the air is always clear and serene), and to see " the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tem" pests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospest be with pity, and not. with swelling or... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...standing upon the vantage " ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and " where the air is always clear and serene), and to see " the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tem" pests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospest be with pity, and not with swelling or... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 pages
...standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings,...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings,...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pages
...standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings,...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. « To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pages
...standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings,...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings,...mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upou the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business,... | |
 | Walter Henry Burton - 1828 - 84 pages
...angle equal to the old system that we owe the fine astronomical allusion in his Essay on Truth : " Certainly it is heaven upon earth to " have a man's...in Providence, and " turn upon the poles of truth." to an angle in the other, the two triangles might be so applied to each other, that two sides of the... | |
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