 ... (a hill not to 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, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it...  Essays - Page 6by Francis Bacon - 1883 - 217 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...tempests, in the vale' below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move iu charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...tempests, in the vale below :" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. The pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...tempests, in the vale below :" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a...move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon tbe poles of truth. The pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 412 pages
...be ever to love a man who can only talk of votes, seats, rolls, and qualifications !" CHAPTER XVI. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. LORD BACON. " WELL, what do you think of our member?" was Miss Pratt's first salutation to Gertrude,... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1904 - 738 pages
...English Liberalism. He was a living instance of the frame of mind depicted in Bacon's fine aphorism, " certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." We may all learn from history the lesson which Lord Acton apprehended perhaps more clearly than any... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...tempests, in the vale below :" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have...practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like allay in coin of gold and silver ; which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...tem" pests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospest be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have...truth, to the truth of civil business; it will be acknowlged even by those that practise it not, that clean and round dealing is the honour of man's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...tem" pests, in the vale below :" so always that this prospest be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have...truth, to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowlged even by those that practise it not, that clean and round dealing is the honour of man's... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...with pity, and not. with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's miud move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon...truth, to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowlged even by those that practise it not, that clean and round dealing is the honour of man's... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S. - 1825 - 594 pages
...light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspired) light into the face of his chosen. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." (LoiiD BACON.) I could exceedingly wish, Mr. Editor, that some of your correspondents would undertake,... | |
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