 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
 | 1847 - 796 pàgines
...the consciousness of maintaining the right is a richer reward than the highest literary honors. Yet ' no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.' It is not as literary athlete that we contend in the educational arena. We have no secular interests... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1847 - 152 pàgines
...adventures thereof below; but 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 comparison is a beautiful one ; yet, I confess, it seems to me to be incomplete. It needs a crowning... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - 1778 - 392 pàgines
...battle, and the adventures thereof below ; • •. n<i fleai-ure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth — a hill not to be commanded,...always clear and serene — and to see the errors, the wanderings, the mists, and tempests, in the vale below ; always that this prospect be with pity,... | |
 | George Jabet - 1848 - 284 pàgines
...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 of Truth, and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests in the sea below ;'f so * New Atlantis.... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pàgines
...see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upsn the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded,...where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see ths errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below :" so always that this prospect... | |
 | George Atkinson - 1849 - 330 pàgines
...height whence we ought to survey so vast a subject — to the vantageground of truth ; whence we may see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; whence we may track him through the windings of his varied life ; watch his progress from youth to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pàgines
...below : bul no pleasure is comparable to the stand-j ing upon ihe vanlage ground of truth, (a hill notJ ies of heat and cold, doth not impugn the cause rendered, that contraction of pores is inc wanderings-and miste, and lempesls in Ihe vale below :"JSo always lhat this prospecl be with pity,... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1851 - 746 pàgines
...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...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." — BACON. EVERY department of nature which has hitherto been successfully studied, so as to constitute... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pàgines
...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...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." — Bacon's Essays. DerimHims. Etymology. Perilous. Incumbent. Cheerful. Skill. Suspended. Suffering.... | |
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