 | Philosophy - 1846 - 492 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...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." — In brief, learning is sought as the means to an end, — and that end is too usually a worldly... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale, and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — Lord Bacon. CCLVII. The Middle and Lower Classes. — The middle and lower ranks, too numerous... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths - Chemistry - 1846 - 462 pages
...upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit and sale, but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." BALARD discovered Bromine. BALDWIN made several experiments upon phosphorescent substances. BANKS,... | |
 | Protestantism - 1846 - 644 pages
...itself upon; nor a commanding fort for strife and contention; nor yet a shop for profit and sale; but a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. — Jlacon. WIT is brushwood — Judgment is timber. The first makes the brightest flume; but the other... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse, for a wandering...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 action may be... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, — a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down,...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. " It is the presence or absence of this last consideration which gives its real character to intellectual... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 566 pages
...prospect ; or a tower of ' state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or com' manding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit...— and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Crea' tor, and the relief of man's estate !' Mr Burton, we think, will excuse us for having given our... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...itself upon ; nor a commanding for strife and contention ; nor yet a shop for profit and sale ; but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — BACON. The present state of the Jews is a greal proof of Christianity. It is a surprising thing,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 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...glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate." State what particular form of error each of the above metaphors, viz. the couch — the terrace —... | |
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... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of 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... 
