 ... 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...  The Living Age ... - Page 3031851Full view - About this book
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839
...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,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 350 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... | |
 | David Mushet - Animal welfare - 1839 - 324 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... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - Learned institutions and societies - 1840 - 612 pages
...profit; but to give a true account of the gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man, and to erect a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." After the lapse of two centuries, it may be asserted with truth, that the noble purposes... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840
...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... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - Learned institutions and societies - 1840 - 612 pages
...profit ; but to give a true account of the gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man, and to erect a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." After the lapse of two centuries, it may be asserted with truth, that the noble purposes... | |
 | Christianity - 1841
...spirit, nor a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, " but " a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." But from the time of Bacon downwards, we find a general disposition among physical philosophers... | |
 | James Bush - Beatitudes - 1841 - 102 pages
...upon; 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." — Advancement of Learning, Works, vol. ii., p. 433, edit. 1730, fol. L. 3. " Saith... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1843
...raise himself upon; nor a commanding fort for strife and contention; nor yet a shop for profit and sale ; but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." Men possessed of superior natural or acquired powers, should be intellectual as well... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842
...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. — BACON. SUNDAY SCHOOL... | |
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