 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...  The British Prose Writers - Pàgina 91821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Arthur Horowitz - 2004 - 236 pàgines
...Prospero-like, he writes that "no pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage ground of truth and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below" (The Essays [Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985], 62). 18. It was on this question that I was most... | |
 | Sherrie-Ri Marshall - 2004 - 94 pàgines
...adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below." Francis Bacon 39 Part Two: The Whole Truth 41 Chapter 4 What You Don Jt Know CAN Hurt You The expression... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 2007 - 537 pàgines
...and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the...and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale bdow ; so always that this prospect be with pity, .and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is... | |
 | Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie - 2007
...see a Battaile, and the Adventures thereof, below: But no pleasure is comparable, to the standing on the vantage ground of Truth: (A hill not to be commanded, and where the Ayre is alwaies cleare and serene;) And to see the Errours, and Wandrings, and Mists, and Tempests,... | |
 | Nassim Nicholas Taleb - 2009 - 388 pàgines
...itl. Confirmationi Bacon sayc m On Tnsth, "No pleasure is comparable to the standmg upon the vantnge ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded and where the air is always clear and serenel, and to see the errors, and wandermga, and mists, and temperts, io the vale below." This eastly... | |
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