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
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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 pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's miud move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 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... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 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... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 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... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 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... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 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...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...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 one... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1829 - 570 pages
...which I would rather have written than all the volumes of all the Greek philosophers: let me read it. " Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." BARROW. Magnificent as Shakespeare. NEWTON. He who wrote tragedies ? BARROW. The same : I have lately... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...one marriage at present, there might be two, if such regulations took place. — Goldsmith. DCXLVI. It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — lard Bacon. DCXLVn. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...of one marriage at present, there might be two, if such regulations took place.—Goldsmith. DCXLVI. It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.—Lord Bacon. DCXLVII. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie... | |
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