 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale' below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly...it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move iu charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. The pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly...move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon tbe poles of truth. The pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 412 pages
...be ever to love a man who can only talk of votes, seats, rolls, and qualifications !" CHAPTER XVI. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. LORD BACON. " WELL, what do you think of our member?" was Miss Pratt's first salutation to Gertrude,... | |
 | 1904 - 738 pages
...English Liberalism. He was a living instance of the frame of mind depicted in Bacon's fine aphorism, " certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." We may all learn from history the lesson which Lord Acton apprehended perhaps more clearly than any... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...to the rest, saith yet excellent well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, ft OF TRUTH. 5 " to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand...Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's miud move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...errors, and wanderings, and mists, and ' tempests, in the vale below :" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly,...truth, to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's... | |
 | 1825 - 594 pages
...light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspired) light into the face of his chosen. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." (LoiiD BACON.) I could exceedingly wish, Mr. Editor, that some of your correspondents would undertake,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pages
...errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly...philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pages
...errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly...philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's... | |
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Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly,... 
