 | F. C - 1846 - 854 páginas
...reformation." " No pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of trufi*; and to «ee the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below." LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, BACON. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. 1846. Price One... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1847 - 152 páginas
...battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth, and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests, in the vale below." The comparison is a beautiful one ; yet, I confess, it seems to me to be incomplete. It needs a crowning... | |
 | 1847 - 796 páginas
...the consciousness of maintaining the right is a richer reward than the highest literary honors. Yet ' no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth ; a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene ; and to see the errors... | |
 | George Jabet - 1848 - 284 páginas
...upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the...errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests in the sea below ;'f so * New Atlantis. t Bacon would seem to have had this passage again in his mind, when... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1849 - 702 páginas
...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, and tempests in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth... | |
 | George Atkinson - 1849 - 330 páginas
...height whence we ought to survey so vast a subject — to the vantageground of truth ; whence we may see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; whence we may track him through the windings of his varied life ; watch his progress from youth to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 páginas
...upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures er h %Xh % j % a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene; and to see the errors, and... | |
 | 1851 - 724 páginas
...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 and tempests, in the vale below:' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." — BACON. EVERY department of nature... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1851 - 746 páginas
...upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the 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... | |
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... (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. 
