 | John Hawkins - 1787 - 636 pàgines
...tranquil mind, and a confcience void of offence, fo feelingly defcribed in this fentence of lord Bacon : ' Certainly it is heaven ' upon earth to have a man's mind move in Charity, ' reft in Providence, and turn upon the poles of «' Truth.' If Johnfon could ever be faid to be idle,... | |
 | Sir John Hawkins - 1787 - 634 pàgines
...tranquil mind, and a confcience void of offence, fo feelingly defcribed in this fentence of lord Bacon : ' Certainly it is heaven ' upon earth to have a man's mind move in Charity, ' reft in Providence, and turn upon the poles of f Truth.' If Johnfon could ever be faid to be idle,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 640 pàgines
...tranquil mind, and a confcience void of offence, fo feelingly defcribed in this fentence of lord Bacon : ' Certainly it is heaven ' upon earth to have a man's mind move in Charity, ' reft in Providence, and turn upon the poles of ' Truth.' If Johnfon could ever be faid to be idle,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 642 pàgines
...tranquil mind, and a confcience void of offence, fo feelingly defcribed in this fentence of lord Bacon : * Certainly it is heaven ' upon earth to have a man's mind move in Charity, • reft in Providence, and turn upon the poles of • Truth.' If Johnfon could ever be faid to be... | |
 | John Hawkins - 1787 - 652 pàgines
...and a confcience void of offence, fo feelingly defcribed in this fentence of lord Bacon : ' Ceitainly it is heaven • upon earth to have a man's mind move in Charity, c reft in Providence, and turn upon the poles of • Truth.' If Johnfon could ever be faid to be idle,... | |
 | 1791 - 450 pàgines
...extraordinary fufferings for publicly maintaining the worfhip of one God, is entirely groundlefs. * " Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, reft in providence, and turn on the poles of truth."—Lord BACON. groundlefs. Pofitive perfecution... | |
 | James Anderson - 1792 - 390 pàgines
...vantage ground of truth, (an hill not to be comjnanded, and where the air is always -clear and sejene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the valley below : So always, •however, that this prospect be with pity, and not .with -swelling of pride.... | |
 | John Feltham - 1799 - 146 pàgines
...of the Almighty j whose alone it is to give.) and not receive. LXXIX. <!ertainly (says Lord BACON) it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in 6 charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. , • LXXX. CHRIST'S coat, says one... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - 1801 - 392 pàgines
...because he walketh among men for salvation in no other way, * " Certainly (says Lord Bacon in his Essays) it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move...charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." t The prophets, and even the antient Jews, understood the Messiah by this name of MERCY : And... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pàgines
...but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, and to see the error and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale...always that this prospect be with pity, and not with self-sufficiency and pride. Surely, it is a heaven upon earth to have our minds move in charity, rest... | |
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground... 
