 ... 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 a fort or commanding ground for strife...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 39by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Mark Girouard - History - 1978 - 358 pages
...metaphor to each: 'sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ... as if there was sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit . . . sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight . . . [making of knowledge] a terrace,... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to...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... | |
 | Howard Zinn - History - 1990 - 412 pages
...to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men. . . . We who think about history need to decide from the start whether history should be written and... | |
 | Edward LeRoy Long Jr. - Religion - 1992 - 250 pages
...sometimes for victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men.6 Plato's confidence in the value of philosophy for affairs of state, as well as Bacon's belief... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...Reviewing the course of learning and arts Bacon complains that men have seldom followed studies: sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to...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... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...and arts Bacon complains that men have seldom followed studies: sincerely to give a true account oí their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men:...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... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...Reviewing the course of learning and arts Bacon complains that men have seldom followed studies: sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benef1t and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching... | |
 | Marie Boas Hall - Science - 1994 - 408 pages
...to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.3 The " benefit and use of men " meant to Bacon many things : power, because it was synonymous... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - Psychology - 1995 - 390 pages
...end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men ... for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...to victory of wit and contradiction,- and most times for lucre and profession, and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to...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... | |
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