 | 1864 - 408 páginas
...who essays to write History: " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to behold 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 páginas
...rest,1 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... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood - 1866 - 586 páginas
...'adventure' was formerly common. Bacon uses 'adventures' in the sense of 'fortunes,' 'casualties.' It is... a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battaile, and the adventures thereof, below. Ess. I. p. 3. Jesus did not auenture himself emong the... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood - 1866 - 588 páginas
...'adventure' was formerly common. Bacon uses 'adventures' in the sense of 'fortunes,' 'casualties.' It is. ..a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battaile, and the adventures thereof, below. Ess. I. p. 3, Jesus did not auenture himself emong the... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood - 1866 - 588 páginas
...'adventure' was formerly common. Bacon uses 'adventures' in the sense of 'fortunes,' 'casualties.' It is...a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battaile, and the adventures thereof, below. Ess. I. p. 3. Jesus did not auenture himself emong the... | |
 | George Herbert West - 1867 - 52 páginas
...beautified the sect, 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 adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground of truth... | |
 | George Herbert West - 1867 - 60 páginas
...beautified the sect, 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 adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground of truth... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 páginas
...beautified the sect, 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 adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantageground of... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 páginas
...rest, saith yet excellently well : ' H 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 adventuret thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 páginas
...&c.' Adventures : hazards, bold performances. " Thine a the adventure, thine the victory." — Dryden. 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... | |
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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... 
