 ... 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
 | Markku Peltonen - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 406 pages
...primacy in discussions. Too rarely are they disposed to use the gift of reason for the good of all men 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... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - Language Arts & Disciplines - 372 pages
...the victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profersion; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 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... | |
 | Bernard S. Phillips - Social Science - 2001 - 272 pages
...scientific method: Men have entered into the desire of learning and knowledge . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men, but as if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and wandering spirit; or a terrace... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession;0 and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men:0 as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit;... | |
 | David Read - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 190 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... | |
 | Stephen John Campbell, Stephen L. Campbell - Art - 2004 - 430 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...knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and a restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect;... | |
 | Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, Ian Hunter - Political Science - 2006 - 242 pages
...primarily to do with contemplation that is removed from action and production: 'as if there were to be sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect . . . and not a... | |
 | Willem B. Drees, Hubert Meisinger, Zbigniew Liana - Religion - 2006 - 182 pages
...Aristotle, Melanchthon's was the 'unmethodical' theology of the Anabaptists. 'as if there were to be sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect . . . and not a... | |
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