 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 pages
...use the grand language of Bacon) " not a couch whereon to rest a searching spirit, nor a terrass for a wandering and variable mind, to walk up and down with a fair prospect; nor a fort and commanding ground for strife and contention ; nor a shop for profit or sale, but a rich... | |
 | William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 456 pages
...error. If there are any philosophers so void of understanding as to regard the science of nature only as a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; and to esteem themselves as licentiates in incredulity, because * If the reader desires to have a... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest si searching and restless spirit ; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop foi profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1898 - 622 pages
...spirit ; nor a terrace for a wandering or variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; nor a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; nor a sort of commanding ground for strife and contention ; nor a shop for profit and sale, but a... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 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...prospect : or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise ilaelf upon : or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention : or a shop for profit and sale... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1816 - 340 pages
...sought in knowledge a conch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit: or a terrace for * wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with...ground for strife and contention : or a shop for profit and sale : and not a rich, itore-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."... | |
 | England - 1851 - 786 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, with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for ft prond mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a... | |
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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... 
