 | 1848 - 592 pages
...Convention is to meet again in the Mission House, New York, on the second Tuesday of April. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Lord Bacon. LADY HEWLEY'S CHARITY. (Continued from page 420.) WE are at a loss to know on what... | |
 | George Jabet - Character - 1848 - 284 pages
...Augmentis, sec. 5. 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...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
...the vale below ; 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...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... | |
 | 1849 - 736 pages
...the face of man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." Again, in the preface to Novum Organum : " We would in general admonish all to consider the true ends... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1849 - 702 pages
...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...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." He repeated the last sentence, " ' Turn upon the poles of truth !' How beautiful ! There, sir, I will... | |
 | Nathanael Alcock - Cholera - 1849 - 208 pages
...not hesitate to aver, that I fully coincide with Lord Bacon, when he declares, " It is certainly a heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity,...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." I do not assume either that I have learned all that can be known of cholera. " Were man to live coeval... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...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...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business; it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Herman Hooker - Consolation - 1850 - 194 pages
.../AUTHOR OF WTHE PORTION OF THE SOUL;" "POPULAR INFIDELITY;" " CHRISTIAN LIFE ;" MAXIMS OF TOOTH," ETC. " It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth."— Bacon. " If we so contemplate as to learn what Christ was, and expects us to be, nothing will be wanting... | |
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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. 
