 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...KNOWLEDGE. — Knowledge is not a couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a sort of commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale : but a rich storehouse... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...there were sought in knowledge, a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contentions, or a shop for profit or sale, and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator,... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - 1856 - 532 pages
...to appear. " Knowledge is not a couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." If science were... | |
 | 1857 - 216 pages
..." Knowledge is not then a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; but a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."* Religion,... | |
 | 1868 - 796 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commandingground for strife or contention ; or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich storehouse,... | |
 | 1857 - 996 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding-ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse,... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
...elevating him. He will seek in knowledge rather " a fort or commanding ground for strife or contention ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a shop for profit and sale," instead of what the greatest of philosophers tells us should be sought in... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1859 - 398 pages
...sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for ft wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with...commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop tor profit or sale— and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in know ledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless...walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of slate, for a proud mind to 1 Svo. I'nri«, Par llolnmi,, of which there l» a copy In the Brltbh Mmeum.... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 698 pages
...belief — q. v, "Knowledge is not a couch whereon to rest a searching and reckless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...strife and contention, or a shop for profit or sale ; but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."* — V. CERTAINTY,... | |
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... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or... 
