 ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or...  The Retrospective Review - Стр. 2881821Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - Страниц: 244
...tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - 1840 - Страниц: 760
...profit ; but to give a true account of the gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man, and to erect a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." After the lapse of two centuries, it may be asserted with truth, that the noble purposes of the clergy... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - 1840 - Страниц: 762
...profit; but to give a true account of the gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man, and to erect a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." After the lapse of two centuries, it may be asserted with truth, that the noble purposes of the clergy... | |
 | James Bush - 1841 - Страниц: 124
...tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." — Advancement of Learning, Works, vol. ii., p. 433, edit. 1730, fol. L. 3. " Saith Nature." Some... | |
 | 1841 - Страниц: 530
...nor a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect,'" but " a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." But from the time of Bacon downwards, we find a general disposition among physical philosophers to... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - Страниц: 478
...tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit, or sale ; and not...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge. — BACON. SUNDAY SCHOOL SONGS. NO.... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1843 - Страниц: 472
...himself upon; nor a commanding fort for strife and contention; nor yet a shop for profit and sale ; but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." Men possessed of superior natural or acquired powers, should be intellectual as well as spiritual almoners... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - Страниц: 342
...tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale, and not...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." Such, then, is the use of knowledge. It constitutes a rich storehouse, whence we should draw materials... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 450
...upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit and sain ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. — /.-.../ Bacon. BELIEF To believe without examination, is no belief in reality, but merely an assent... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1843 - Страниц: 256
...upon ; or a Fort or commanding Ground for Strife and Contention ; or a Shop for Profit or Sale ; but a rich Storehouse for the Glory of the Creator and the relief of man's Estate^." Many things concealed from the wise and prudent, I shall be reminded, are revealed unto babes ; but... | |
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