| John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1851 - 746 páginas
...rest, wiith yet excellently well : ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed 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... | |
| 1868 - 376 páginas
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| David Thomas - 468 páginas
...MORE UNGODLINESS." " It is a pleasure," says Bacon, " to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventurers thereof, below ; but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... | |
| 1868 - 756 páginas
...Lucretius by the mouth of the great Lord Bacon, " to stand upon the sea-shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below ;" but nothing in our poor mind can equal the joy of him, who being solitary... | |
| William Sharp - 1853 - 286 páginas
...rest, saith yet excellently well . * It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed 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... | |
| mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854 - 318 páginas
...possess the independence I wish rather to meet with, than to confer." CHAPTEE XI. It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...rest, saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed he relief of man's estate. But * nearly and strailly conjoined and united together than adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
| British history - 1855 - 482 páginas
...The poet saith excellently well, ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures of it below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth,... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1855 - 546 páginas
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| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 páginas
...the sect,6 that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon...the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures7 thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
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