 ... (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.  Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy - Page 27by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tem" pests, in the vale below :" so always that this prospest be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly,...theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowlged even by those that practise it not, that clean and round dealing is... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S. - 1825 - 594 pages
...light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspired) light into the face of his chosen. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." (LoiiD BACON.) I could exceedingly wish, Mr. Editor, that some of your correspondents would undertake,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tem" pests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospest be with pity, and not. with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's miud move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists,...theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 412 pages
...vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists,...theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 404 pages
...vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists,...theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
...vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists,...theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists,...mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upou the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business,... | |
 | Walter Henry Burton - Astronomy - 1828 - 84 pages
...angle equal to the old system that we owe the fine astronomical allusion in his Essay on Truth : " Certainly it is heaven upon earth to " have a man's...Providence, and " turn upon the poles of truth." to an angle in the other, the two triangles might be so applied to each other, that two sides of the one... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...which I would rather have written than all the volumes of all the Greek philosophers: let me read it. " Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." BARROW. Magnificent as Shakespeare. NEWTON. He who wrote tragedies ? BARROW. The same : I have lately... | |
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