 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window^ of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...pleasure," Lord Verulam says, from Lucretius, " to stand upon the shore and to see ships tost upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventure thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and " to see ships tost upon the sea : a pleasure to " stand in the window of a castle, and to see a " battle, and the adventures thereof below; " but no pleasure is comparable to the stand" ing upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and •' to see ships tost upon the sea : a pleasure to stand " in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and " the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is " comparable to the, standing upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships toss'd upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Learning and scholarship - 1820 - 200 pages
...saith he, " to stand or walk " upon the shore, and to see a ship tost with tempest " upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window " of a castle, and to see two battles join upon a " plain: but it is a pleasure incomparable for th« " mind of man to be settled,... | |
 | 1821 - 662 pages
...Lucretius by the month of Lord Bacon, " to stand upon the sea-shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below;" but nothing, in my mind, can equal the joy of him, who being... | |
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... 
