 ... 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
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 168 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. — Bacon's Advancement of Learning. 14. Would I then withhold the Bible from the cottager... | |
 | 1845
...— or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention — or a shop for profit or sale — hut a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." * Lord Bacon — Connected with this pnrt of the article, we earuestlv recommend to... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths (Professor of Chemistry.) - Chemistry - 1846 - 495 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale, but a rich store-house for the glory of The Creator and the relief of man's estate." BALARD discovered Bromine. BALDWIN made several experiments upon phosphorescent substances.... | |
 | Protestantism - 1846
...to raise itself 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. — Jlacon. WIT is brushwood — Judgment is timber. The first makes the brightest flume;... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths - Chemistry - 1846 - 451 pages
...raise itself upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit and sale, but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." BALARD discovered Bromine. BALDWIN made several experiments upon phosphorescent substances.... | |
 | Materials - 1846
...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,... | |
 | Philosophy - 1846
...; 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." — In brief, learning is sought as the means to an end, — and that end is too usually... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846
...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... | |
 | Baptists - 1744
...raise himself upon ; or a fort of 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 relief of man's estate. 128 SINCERE RECONCILIATION. — " If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths - Chemistry - 1846 - 451 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale, but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and t^ie relief of man-s estate." BALARD discovered Bromine. BALDWIN made several experiments upon phosphorescent... | |
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