| George Jabet - 1848 - 284 pàgines
...excellently well : ' 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... | |
| Robert Hall - 1849 - 702 pàgines
...Essay, on Truth : " It is a pleasure to stand on 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 adventurers thereof, below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pàgines
...excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : +)F 1 On *`_ M̠1d = & M s$3t _ L, x 2. battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pàgines
...excellently well, ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost 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... | |
| 1851 - 724 pàgines
...excellently well : ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to gee shipg 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 plea-ure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pàgines
...excellently well, " 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... | |
| David Thomas - 468 pàgines
..." It is a pleasure," says Bacon, " 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 adventurers thereof, below ; but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage... | |
| 1868 - 756 pàgines
...mouth of the great Lord Bacon, " to stand upon the sea-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 nothing in our poor mind can equal the joy of him, who... | |
| William Sharp - 1853 - 286 pàgines
...excellently well . * 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... | |
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