... 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 a fort or commanding ground for strife and... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4251851Full view - About this book
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 422 pages
...or a fort or commanding ground for strife or contention ; or a shop for profit or sale, — and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate*." In the same pure and noble strain, Milton spoke, not of the mercenary crew of false... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 pages
...; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." Of the strength of the love of knowledge who Love. can doubt? Who can have passed an... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...upon; or a fort, or commanding ground for strife or 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. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...or a fort, or commanding ground for strife or 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. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and... | |
| 1838 - 574 pages
...or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale; but rather a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man.' She agrees with him that physical science, however useful, is but a part, and a small part, of... | |
| 1838 - 728 pages
...or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; but rather a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man.' She agrees with him that physical science, however useful, is but a part, and a small part, of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...a fort, or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." He then weighs the dignity of knowledge " in the balance with other things," and takes... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention : or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of roan's estate. — Advancement of Learning. UNIVERSITIES. As water, whether it he the dew of heaven... | |
| John Taylor - 1839 - 274 pages
...upon, or a fort or commanding 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. — Lord Bacon. CCLVII. The Middle and Lower Classes. — The middle and lower ranks,... | |
| David Mushet - 1839 - 350 pages
...spirit ... a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself .... a shop for profit or sale : and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.— Lord Bacon. THE subject which now attracts our notice is one where the acts of torture... | |
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