 ... (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
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1906 - 598 pages
...vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always calm and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and...prospect be with pity and not with swelling or pride." As shown by Gore in his admirable treatise, " The Art of Scientific Discovery," all really true and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 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... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...philosophers, Francis Bacon, in the following energetic sentence, — " Certainly it is heaven and earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." As perspicuity should always be the marked characteristic of a report, we shall in this digested analysis,... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 728 pages
...symptoms in the present state of society, this is the most frightful. ' Certainly,' says Lord Bacon, ' it is Heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity' — but he adds also, ' to rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.' But what truth can... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 574 pages
...symptoms in the present state of society, this is the most frightful. ' Certainly,' says Lord Bacon, ' it is Heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity' — but he adds also, ' to rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.' But what truth can... | |
 | 518 pages
...SKETCH THE FOURTH— THE COUNTRY PARSON. " It Is Indeed a heaven upon earth, to see a man's mind mov« in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."— LORD BACON. Sydney Smith's fancy sketch of the machinery of a first-class clerical novel was on this... | |
 | William M'Combie - Conduct of life - 1839 - 264 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,...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." While deeply sensible of the imperfections of these essays, which he again lays before the public,... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1839 - 390 pages
...sanctioned by experience, which one is glad to mellow by that soothing and holy apothegm of Bacon : — " It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." To return to the little dark-eyed Rachael. A very brief interval elapsed after her future fortunes had... | |
 | Help - 1839 - 120 pages
...conclusions of any theory spun i'rom the human brain. HORSLEY. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. BACON. THE BEST STUDY. Next to the study of the Scriptures, history best becometh a gentleman, Church-history... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men." So always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. LOVER OF TRUTH. OUR trumpet doth not summon, and encourage men to tear and rend one another with contradictions;... | |
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