 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...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...below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upsn the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and... | |
 | George Atkinson - 1849 - 330 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1849 - 702 pages
...is a pleasure to stand on 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 the standing on the vantage ground of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...below : bul no pleasure is comparable to the stand-j ing upon ihe vanlage ground of truth, (a hill notJ ies of heat and cold, doth not impugn the cause rendered, that contraction of pores is inc wanderings-and miste, and lempesls in Ihe vale below :"JSo always lhat this prospecl be with pity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...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...to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tem1 Unpleasing (unused, for unplcasingnesg. 2 Spake (old or biblical) for spoke. ' Lucretius. ' The... | |
 | 1851 - 724 pages
...is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to gee shipg 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 plea-ure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded,... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - 1852 - 428 pages
...a pleasure to stand upon the shore,' says Lord Bacon,' and to watch the ships tossed upon the sea ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon...always that this prospect be with pity, and not with pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in Charity, rest in Providence,... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pages
...It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...to fee a Battle, and the Adventures thereof, below : But no Pleafure is comparable to the ftanding upon the vantage Ground of Truth ; (A Hill not to...be commanded, and where the Air is always clear and ferene) : and to fee the Errors, and Wanderings, and Mifts, and Tempefts, in the Vale below : So always,... | |
 | David Thomas - 468 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
