 ... (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
 | Augusta M. Wicks - 1845 - 214 pages
...higher." Oh, how incomparable your happiness, both here and hereafter ! For " it is heaven upon earth to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...and 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...practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...and 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...theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil busiiiesi',"irwi!t't)"e"acKno'wle"dge'd, °e"ven %y those that practise it not, that clear and round... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Portraits, British - 1846 - 512 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 charity, rest in providence, and III. T turn upon the poles of truth." Jenner is a striking illustration of the truth of this remark.... | |
 | William Blake - Literary Collections - 1966 - 964 pages
...work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit . . . Pretence to Religion to destroy Religion. , To pass from theological and philosophical truth to...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 —... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...does not mention Machiavelli in the passage, should be added what Bacon writes of in Of Truth (1625) : To pass from theological and philosophical truth to...business; it will be acknowledged, even by those that practice it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood... | |
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