 ... (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
 | John William Carleton - 1854 - 522 pages
...DRUID. SKETCH THE FOURTH— THE COUNTRY PARSON. " It is indeed a heaven upon earth, to see a man'i mind move in charity, rest In Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." — LOKD BACON. Sydney Smith's fancy sketch of tho machinery of a first-class clerical novel was on... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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... | |
 | John Bainbridge Smith, Richard Hooker - Ecclesiastical law - 1840 - 508 pages
...LITERATURE. FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. " Hurra eiKrxi/uo'Kws Kal Kara Ta£tK ytvlaQui.'" — 1 Con. xiv. 40. '' Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth ." — LORD BACON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JGF & J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE,... | |
 | Thomas Brightwell - Bible - 1840 - 416 pages
...conduct of the people. — K. 20. See Exod. xiii, 9, and note. 21. As the days of heaven upon the earth. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Lord Bacon's Essay on Truth. 24. This was fulfilled in the reign of Solomon : see 2 Chron. ix,... | |
 | Christianity - 1845 - 1036 pages
...and sincere conviction that he is well entitled to do so. Lord Bacon has beautifully observed that " certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." In our view, it is equally certain that such a mind is formed to be a guiding one ; and to this class,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...before it, and not in its possessions. Of the sufficiency of virtue he has said no less than this : " Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." We doubt if a loftier or more beautiful sentiment can be found in any writer of antiquity. It is true,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 480 pages
...be ever to love a man who can only talk of votes, seats, rolls, and qualifications ! " CHAPTER XVI. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth — LORD BACON. " WELL, what do you think of our member?" was Miss Pratt's first salutation to Gertrude,... | |
 | 1867 - 396 pages
...Churches held at Lenton, near Nottingham, September 15, 1J68. Pubshed by request of the Conference. pests in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." To the intelligent Nonconformist this vantage-ground just now preeminently belongs. The sea of politics... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...so clearly fallacious. ERASMUS. " HEAVEN UPON EARTH." " IT is heaven upon earth," Lord Bacon says, " to have a man's mind move in Charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth." If the opposite of these be hell upon earth, a good many, who least imagine it, have themselves, in... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - Holy Spirit - 1842 - 730 pages
...believers are exhorted • " Certainly (says Lord Bacon in his Essays) it is heaven upon earth to haven man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." t The prophets, and even the ancient Jews, understood the Mcuiuh by this name of MIRCT i and the Mcstiah.... | |
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