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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... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page xxv
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
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The Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton, William W. Campbell - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 446 pages
...proud mind to rest itself upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a ship for profit or sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of God and the benefit of man."f Shall we then call on some transcendant genius to dispel the darkness...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 16

Literature - 1850 - 824 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...
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Education and Society in Tudor England

Joan Simon - Education - 1966 - 472 pages
...true account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use of men'; they fail to see knowledge as 'a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate'. Yet it is this, Bacon insists, that will in fact dignify and exalt knowledge, 'if contemplation and...
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The Psychology of Marxian Socialism

Hendrik De Man - Political Science - 524 pages
...psychological root of the socialism of intellectuals. CHAPTER EIGHT THE SOCIALISM OF INTELLECTUALS . for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. FRANCIS BACON I AM well aware that when I now go on to speak of the socialism of intellectuals (after...
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Elizabethan Popular Culture

Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 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. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be...
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The Uses of Literacy

Richard Hoggart - Language Arts & Disciplines - 372 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a latrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...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...
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Higher Education as a Moral Enterprise

Edward LeRoy Long Jr. - Religion - 1992 - 250 pages
...value of philosophy for affairs of state, as well as Bacon's belief that knowledge is best used "as a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate," have been utilized on the premise that the educational institution trains individuals who assume, usually...
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Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 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...for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate.27 Sloth, vain-glory, envy, pride, greed - it is failings like these which Bacon describes here....
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Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...observed...' What is sought is not self-importance and self-flattery for the human race, but, instead, a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate. Cultivation of knowledge, religious, moral, civil, natural, is a religious and moral exercise. ' All...
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Freemasonry Came to America with Captain John Smith in 1607

George V. Tudhope - 1993 - 40 pages
...evidence favors Francis Bacon as being the father and head of it. Note the words around his portrait: FOR THE GLORY OF THE CREATOR AND THE RELIEF OF MAN'S ESTATE, is quite Masonic. Plate III is another emblematic device which not only connects; Francis Bacon with...
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