 ... (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.  Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr - Page 2by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874Full view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 480 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...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth — LORD BACON. " WELL, what do you think of our member?" was Miss Pratt's first salutation to Gertrude,... | |
 | 1845 - 1036 pages
...and sincere conviction that he is well entitled to do so. Lord Bacon has beautifully observed that " certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." In our view, it is equally certain that such a mind is formed to be a guiding one ; and to this class,... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...before it, and not in its possessions. Of the sufficiency of virtue he has said no less than this : " Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." We doubt if a loftier or more beautiful sentiment can be found in any writer of antiquity. It is true,... | |
 | 1867 - 396 pages
...Churches held at Lenton, near Nottingham, September 15, 1J68. Pubshed by request of the Conference. pests in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." To the intelligent Nonconformist this vantage-ground just now preeminently belongs. The sea of politics... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...so clearly fallacious. ERASMUS. " HEAVEN UPON EARTH." " IT is heaven upon earth," Lord Bacon says, " to have a man's mind move in Charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth." If the opposite of these be hell upon earth, a good many, who least imagine it, have themselves, in... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - 1842 - 730 pages
...believers are exhorted • " Certainly (says Lord Bacon in his Essays) it is heaven upon earth to haven man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." t The prophets, and even the ancient Jews, understood the Mcuiuh by this name of MIRCT i and the Mcstiah.... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 588 pages
...thence to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, wanderings up and down of other men' — so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." — LORD BACON. " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy t There was an awful rainbow... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1845 - 652 pages
...hill not to be commanded, and where the air in always clear and serene ;) and to see the errors, , and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.' I used kind words, and shall continue to do so. Hitherto I have had no occasion to notice any thing... | |
 | 1844 - 608 pages
...light into the face of man ; and still he breathes and inspires 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." In this way every science finds its scope in Him who is the source of Truth and Beauty. Upon this subject,... | |
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