 | Sir James Mackintosh, J. G. Marvin - International law - 1843 - 130 pages
...speculators have despised experience ; but he who was both a philosopher and a statesman, has told us, ' This is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly compared and united than they have hitherto been.' These are the words of Lord Bacon ; and in his spirit,... | |
 | Ireland - 1843 - 450 pages
...upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit and sain ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. — /.-.../ Bacon. BELIEF To believe without examination, is no belief in reality, but merely an assent... | |
 | Edward Forbes - Botany - 1843 - 32 pages
...; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; — but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." IHE END. Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, Bed Lion Court, Fleet Street. V ... | |
 | James Pycroft - Classical education - 1843 - 256 pages
...upon ; or a Fort or commanding Ground for Strife and Contention ; or a Shop for Profit or Sale ; but a rich Storehouse for the Glory of the Creator and the relief of man's Estate^." Many things concealed from the wise and prudent, I shall be reminded, are revealed unto babes ; but... | |
 | Theology - 1871 - 870 pages
...raise itself 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." J This error of learning was not peculiar to the age of Bacon. No one who watches the drift of opinion... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contentioni 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." — Bacon. NEW YORK : PUBLISHED BY SEARS & ч W AL K ER, 114 FULTON STREET. BOSTON: SAXTON AND PEIRCE,... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 620 pages
...upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale; but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — Lord Bacon. THE THRONE OF GRACE. If yon are a Christian, the throne of grace is yours. Your Father... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 838 pages
...craving of his soul for that species of culture which books cannot give. " That," says Lord Bacon, " will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined and united together than they have been, — a conjunction like unto that of the... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...mind to raise itself 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 and the... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Common fallacies - 1845 - 144 pages
...mind to raise itself Upon; 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 a worldly... | |
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... a couch 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... 
