 ... (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.  The Temple of Truth: Or, The Best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and ... - Page 24by Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 566 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Christian life - 1835 - 334 pages
...tempests, in the vale below :" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in yrovideace, and turn upon the poles of truth.' TRUE HAPPINESS. GRACE is holiness militant ; holiness,... | |
 | Caleb Ticknor - Conduct of life - 1836 - 360 pages
...tempests in the vale below :' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."— (Bacon.) ' CT New-York, 1836. * Lucretius. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Misery of the human family — Man... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 440 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...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." LORD nACON. "WELL, what do you think of our member?" was Miss Pratt's first salutation to Gertrude,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1836 - 520 pages
...consoling doctrine. How strange, that while, conformably with the wise observation of Lord Bacon, " it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth '," there should be found men of ingenuity and literature, who dazzle by their talents and delude by... | |
 | Elizabeth Sandford - Women - 1836 - 470 pages
...in truth is a Christian happiness. For, certainly, as the great philosopher of our country says, " It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."* The love of truth is evidenced in the lesser as well as in the graver transactions of life, — in... | |
 | William Hull (perpetual curate of St. Gregory's, Norwich.) - Baptism - 1836 - 126 pages
...only the majesty, but the benignity of the Divine administration. " Certainly," as Lord Bacon says, "it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." While querulous men are, at once, indulging their bad passions, and taking credit for superior piety,... | |
 | Medicine - 1836 - 554 pages
...tempests in the vale below:' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charily, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." — (Bacon.) p. vi. Now, all this is... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pages
...tempests, in the vale below : " so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Bacon. CONTENTMENT. — It is the general misfortune not to be content with what we have; not to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...tempests, in the vale below :" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business; it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...philosophers, Francis Bacon, in the following energetic sentence, — " Certainly it is heaven and earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." As perspicuity should always be the marked characteristic of a report, we shall in this digested analysis,... | |
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