 ... 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...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 39by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | George O'Neill - 1909 - 40 pages
...there were sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or a commanding ground for strife or contention; or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house... | |
 | Medical Association of Georgia. Annual Meeting - Medicine - 1910 - 516 pages
...said: "That knowledge is not a couch whereon 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 the state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort, or commanding ground for strife and contention,... | |
 | Medical Association of Georgia - Medicine - 1910 - 508 pages
...said: "That knowledge is not a couch whereon 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 the state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort, or commanding ground for strife and contention,... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Science - 1911 - 274 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to repose a searching and restless spirit; or a tarasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fanprospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - History - 1912 - 302 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...for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or 1»ale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But... | |
 | Brown University - 1915 - 328 pages
...and fields of battle. To such men learning was, in the stately phrases of Lord Bacon, "not a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; ... or a shop for profit or sale; . . . but a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator and the relief of... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1915 - 220 pages
...schoolmen, was not the aim of our fathers. To them learning was not, in Bacon's phrase, " a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect " ; it was equipment for a religious vocation, it was the development of men fitted for leadership... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - Europe - 1920 - 448 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...tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon . . . and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." The... | |
 | John Dewey - Philosophy - 1920 - 246 pages
...or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort...ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate."... | |
 | John Dewey - Philosophy - 1920 - 268 pages
...or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort...ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate."... | |
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