... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. The Temple of Truth: Or, The Best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and ... - Page 24by Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 566 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...tempests, in the vale below :" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...with pity, and not. with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's miud move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowlged... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 404 pages
...tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
...tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 412 pages
...tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. « To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upou the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business,... | |
| Walter Henry Burton - Astronomy - 1828 - 84 pages
...angle equal to the old system that we owe the fine astronomical allusion in his Essay on Truth : " Certainly it is heaven upon earth to " have a man's...in Providence, and " turn upon the poles of truth." to an angle in the other, the two triangles might be so applied to each other, that two sides of the... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...which I would rather have written than all the volumes of all the Greek philosophers: let me read it. " Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." BARROW. Magnificent as Shakespeare. NEWTON. He who wrote tragedies ? BARROW. The same : I have lately... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...one marriage at present, there might be two, if such regulations took place. — Goldsmith. DCXLVI. It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — lard Bacon. DCXLVn. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.... | |
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