 ... 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...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3031851Full view - About this book
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1849 - 580 pages
...reason to the benefit and use of men, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch. &c., &c., and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man 1 s estate.' Such, then, is the use of knowledge. It constitutes a rich store-house, whence we... | |
 | Medicine - 1849 - 612 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." If such be the true end of all knowledge, how emphatically so must it be of that branch... | |
 | Crime - 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,... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...eommanding gronnd for strife or eontention ; or a shop for profit or sale, and not a rieh storehonse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate." Bnlwer's My Novel, besides its delieions pietnres of English life in nearly all its varieties, seems... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1851 - 588 pages
...or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale— and noi a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's catate." — ADVANCEMENT OF LBÀRNINO, Book I. cultivation. Let me here, my child, invite you to observe,... | |
 | Seba Smith - Geometry - 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... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - Education, Higher - 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... | |
 | Literature - 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... | |
 | England - 1851 - 812 pages
...vulgarly sought; — 1 think it is thus that he proceeds. . . . ' Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator,...examine it again. I may find excuses for it now that I could not when I first formed my judgment I was then a raw lad at Oxford. But I see, Leonard, there... | |
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