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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. "
The Essays of Lord Bacon: With Critical and Illustrative Notes ... - Page 5
by Francis Bacon - 1873 - 234 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 61

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...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 61

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...
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The Sportsman

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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Hours of Thought

William M'Combie - 1839 - 264 pages
...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...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." While deeply sensible of the imperfections of these essays, which he again lays before the public,...
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The life-book of a labourer, by a working clergyman [E. Neale].

Erskine Neale - 1839 - 390 pages
...sanctioned by experience, which one is glad to mellow by that soothing and holy apothegm of Bacon : — " It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." To return to the little dark-eyed Rachael. A very brief interval elapsed after her future fortunes had...
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A help to knowledge, chiefly religious, in extracts from the most approved ...

Help - 1839 - 120 pages
...conclusions of any theory spun i'rom the human brain. HORSLEY. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. BACON. THE BEST STUDY. Next to the study of the Scriptures, history best becometh a gentleman, Church-history...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volume 31

John William Carleton - 1854 - 528 pages
...DRUID. SKETCH THE FOURTH— THE COUNTRY PARSON. " It is indeed a heaven upon earth, to see a man'i mind move in charity, rest In Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." — LOKD BACON. Sydney Smith's fancy sketch of tho machinery of a first-class clerical novel was on...
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men." So always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. LOVER OF TRUTH. OUR trumpet doth not summon, and encourage men to tear and rend one another with contradictions;...
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Notes on the Pentateuch

Thomas Brightwell - 1840 - 416 pages
...conduct of the people. — K. 20. See Exod. xiii, 9, and note. 21. As the days of heaven upon the earth. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Lord Bacon's Essay on Truth. 24. This was fulfilled in the reign of Solomon : see 2 Chron. ix,...
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A digest of Hooker's treatise on the laws of ecclesiastical polity

John Bainbridge Smith, Richard Hooker - 1840 - 508 pages
...LITERATURE. FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. " Hurra eiKrxi/uo'Kws Kal Kara Ta£tK ytvlaQui.'" — 1 Con. xiv. 40. '' Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth ." — LORD BACON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JGF & J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE,...
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