 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 tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly,...  Bacon, His Writings and His Philosophy - Page 27by George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1844 - 592 pages
...thy blessings all around To ст'гу corner of the globe. ADDRESS.» «T i .in N В . Г KISTO M . Certainly it is Heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in Charity, rtst in Providence, and tare upon the poles of Truth,— lord Bacon— Estay on Truth. WE are convened,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...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...pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and... | |
 | Augusta M. Wicks - 1845 - 214 pages
...higher." Oh, how incomparable your happiness, both here and hereafter ! For " it is heaven upon earth to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - 512 pages
...acknowledgments to that Being from whom this and all other mercies flow." Lord Bacon has said, that "it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and III. T turn upon the poles of truth." Jenner is a striking illustration of the truth of this remark.... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...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...pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged even by those that practise it not, that clear and... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - 704 pages
...nature of a stumble."204 "Our very walking," as Goethe puts it, "is a series of falls." Bacon writes, "certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of the earth." Shelley's mind moved in charity, but turned anywhere except upon the poles of the earth.... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...seriousness to the observation. The section culminates in another weighty and 'incontrovertible' sentence: Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. [VI, 378] The development so far discussed is contained within a single extended paragraph. In this... | |
 | Frederick Charles Copleston, Conference for the Study of Political Thought - 1983 - 257 pages
...paper. As Bacon says, so long as one contemplates the errors of others with pity rather than pride "it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." IV John Locke is a more ambiguous figure in the history of modern European thought than Bacon. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...the sentiments whenever he surrenders himself to his genius, as when he writes in the first Essay, "Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence and turn upon the poles of truth." How profound the observation in this passage! "This same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - 1996 - 620 pages
...'love-making or wooing of it' which was for him 'the sovereign good of human nature'. 'Certainly,' he added, 'it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth.' With such happy thoughts we may now leave this 'deservedly miserable' man. Enough has perhaps been... | |
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