 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...profession; 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, where to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, tor a wandering and variable mind to... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...profession; 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, where to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...followed in the University, — tinphilosophy of Aristotle ; real knowledge being in his view "not a couck whereupon to rest a searching and restless 'Spirit...with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud miud to raise itself upon ; or a fort, of commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the beneftt and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of... | |
 | James Bush - Beatitudes - 1841 - 124 pages
...profession ; 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...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrass for a wandering and variable mind, to walk up and down with i a fair prospect ; or a tower... | |
 | Christianity - 1841 - 500 pages
...remembering, that knowledge is not " a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, nor a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect," but " a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." But from the... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 pages
...and use of men: as if there were Bought in knowledge, a couch, whereupon to rest a searching •iid restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and...for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or coinmnnjjng ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit and sale; and not a rich storehouse... | |
 | 1843 - 862 pages
...profession ; 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...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...seldom sincerely to give a true account of our gift of reason, for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon...walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower %f state for a proud mind to raise itself upon : or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...faithfully for their good and for bis glory, and God shall give yon their life for a prey. KNOWLEDGE is not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless...a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud man to raise himself upon ; or a fort of commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for... | |
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... 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 up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or... 
