 ... 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
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 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 man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 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 man's estate. " It is the presence or absence of this last consideration which gives its real character... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 pages
...for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — Lord Bacon. A SIGN OP WEAENESS. A person pointed out a man who had a profusion of... | |
 | William John Dawson - 1848 - 1186 pages
...prospect ; nor a fort and commanding ground, for strife and contention ; nor a shop for self-interest : but a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man." ©bituarg. OCR much beloved sister ELIZABETH POWERS of Nottingham, the wife of brother W. Powers,... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 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 man's estate." State what particular form of error each of the above metaphors, viz. the couch —... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 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 man's estate." State what particular form of error each of the above metaphors, viz. the couch —... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 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 man's estate."* And the same ideas run all through his works from the first page to the last. Thus... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1849 - 580 pages
...reason to the benefit and use of men, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch. &c., &c., and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man 1 s estate.' Such, then, is the use of knowledge. It constitutes a rich store-house, whence we... | |
 | 1849 - 612 pages
...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." If such be the true end of all knowledge, how emphatically so must it be of that branch... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 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." — Bacon. LOVE OF IMMORTALITY. " Leaving the vulgar arguments, that by learning man... | |
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