 ... 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
 | 1849 - 610 pages
...upon; ora fort of commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit and sale; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." Education, in its broadest and highest import, is the art of developing, forming, moulding,... | |
 | 1849 - 580 pages
...reason to the benefit and use of men, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch. &c., «be., and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man? s estate.'' Such, then, is the use of knowledge. It constitutes a rich store-house, whence we... | |
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...thus that after saying the greatest error of all is the mistaking or misplacing the end of knowledge, and denouncing the various objects for which it is...Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a ricli storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate.' "* Parson (remorsefully)... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - 1850 - 786 pages
...their noblest exaltation ; and now at length subservient to the true purposes of our being, become " a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." Whatever view we take of the inborn faculties of man — whether we regard them as physical,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...a fort, or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not ۖ% man's estate." He then weighs the dignity of knowledge " in the balance with other things," and takes... | |
 | Seba Smith - 1850 - 214 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." PART SECOND. DEMONSTRATIONS IN GEOMETRY. REMARK. — Before entering upon this part... | |
 | 1850 - 824 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... | |
 | 1851 - 792 pages
...thus that after saying the greatest error of all is the mistaking or misplacing the end of knowledge, and denouncing the various objects for which it is vulgarly sought ;— I think it is thus that lie proceeds. . . . 'Knowledgeisnot a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 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." * The true lover of knowledge, then, is not one who is merely seeking " variety or delight"... | |
 | 1852 - 1070 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 storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.' We know no name in the lists of great men, of any age or country, who seems more thoroughly... | |
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