 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1847 - 806 pages
...be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene ; and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests, in the vale below : so always...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.' It is not as literary athlete that we contend in the educational nrena. We have no secular interests... | |
 | 1847 - 796 pages
...be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene ; and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests, in the vale below : so always...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.' It is not as literary athlete that we contend in the educational arena. We have no secular interests... | |
 | George Jabet - Character - 1848 - 284 pages
...man of a sublime genius, who took a view of everything as from a high rock." -De Augmentis, sec. 5. always that this prospect be with pity, and not with...in providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth."* Is this the language of one who had no higher aim than " to supply man's vulgar wants, and whose eye... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...and serene — and to see the errors, the wanderings, the mists, and tempests, in the vale below ; always that this prospect be with pity, and not with...in Providence, and turn upon the, poles of truth. •wee* Sleep, Disease, Death. In the last No. of the Miscellany, we presented a piece, entitled "... | |
 | Gallery - 1848 - 306 pages
...acknowledgments to that Being from whom this and all other mercies flow." Lord Bacon has said, that " it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." Jenuer is a striking illustration of the truth of this remark. The modesty of Jenner was manifested... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1921 - 704 pages
...nature of a stumble."204 "Our very walking," as Goethe puts it, "is a series of falls." Bacon writes, "certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of the earth." Shelley's mind moved in charity, but turned anywhere except upon the poles of the earth.... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...seriousness to the observation. The section culminates in another weighty and 'incontrovertible' sentence: Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. [VI, 378] The development so far discussed is contained within a single extended paragraph. In this... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 pages
...the point. Bacon's repeated announcement of his logical organization in the Essays is something new: 'To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business ("Of Truth," 48); "But let us pass from this part of predictions [of 22. Jonson, Discoveries, 8:622,... | |
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Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. 
