 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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...no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of Truth (an hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene)... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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, standing upon the vantage " ground of truth, a hill not to be commanded, and " where the air is always clear and serene : and to see " the errors,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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 "...pleasure is " comparable to the standing upon the vantage u ground of truth, a hill not to be commanded, and " where the air is always clear and serene : and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...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 adventares thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors,... | |
 | 1821 - 662 pages
...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 solitary and comfortless, hears the roar of... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...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 solitary and comfortless, hears the roar of... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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 adventares thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pages
...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 solitary and comfortless, hears the roar of... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1824 - 512 pages
...see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to iiund in Hie window of a cattle and tu see a bailie ; but no pleasure is comparable to- the standing upon the 'vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and .wliere Ihe air is always clear and serene), and to tee the errors,... | |
| |
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... 
