 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...  Philosophical works - Page 261by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | George Gore - 1878 - 696 pages
...KNOWLEDGE. It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea ; a pleaswe to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle...below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always calm and serene),... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1879 - 304 pages
...light into the face of His chosen. The poet (Lucretius), that beautified the sect that otherwise was inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well,...below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground of truth, a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...face of the matter, or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The...inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, // is a pleasure to stand upon the 50 shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1880 - 392 pages
...and the heart-takers the other. — Leigh Hunt. CCCXLIV. JJLEASURE. — It is a pleasure to stand on the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ;...below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and sincere),... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...matter, or chaos ; then He breathed light into the face of man ; and still * Gen. U. 7. Ho breatheth castle1, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...face of the matter, or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The...excellently well, It is a pleasure to stand upon the 50 shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to... | |
 | Franz K W. Lange - 1882 - 262 pages
...the matter, or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breathed and inspired light into the face of his chosen. The poet that beautified...no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth, and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale... | |
 | Morgan E. Dowling - 1882 - 190 pages
...the soulless hypocrite. But I believe with Lucretius, the Roman poet and philosopher, that while ult is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see...to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below ; yet no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth, and to see the errors,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of hia cLosen. The poet that beautified the sect, that was otherwise...pleasure to stand upon the shore, and ' to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand ' in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and ' the... | |
 | Peter Thomas Ouvry - 1882 - 360 pages
...way. He said, " It is a pleasure to stand on the sea-shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; it is a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and...below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene),... | |
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