 ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon;...  History of English Literature - Page 216by Hippolyte Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in KNOWLEDGE, a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace,...upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contentioni or a shop, for profit and sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the CREATOR,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1844 - 276 pages
...gift oj reason to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge n couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace...upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground, for strife, or contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator,... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...their reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — Bacon's Advancement of Learning. 14. Would I then withhold the Bible from the cottager and the... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Common fallacies - 1845 - 144 pages
...of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace...the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."—In brief, learning is sought as the means to an end,—and that end is too usually a worldly... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 562 pages
...may we rise, step by step, to a more lofty knowledge ; which, if we be right minded, ' will not be a tower of state for a proud mind to ' raise itself...and ' contention — or a shop for profit or sale — but a rich storehouse ' for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.'* * Lord Bacon.... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...reason, for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace...walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower %f state for a proud mind to raise itself upon : or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention... | |
 | 1845 - 608 pages
...which, if we be right-minded, ' will not be a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upen — or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention — or a shop for profit or sale — hut a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." * Lord Bacon... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be... | |
 | Philosophy - 1846 - 492 pages
...of reason, to the benefit and use of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." — In brief, learning is sought as the means to an end, — and that end is too usually a worldly... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths - Chemistry - 1846 - 440 pages
...the founder of " Inductive Philosophy," real knowledge being in his view " not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace...ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale, but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and t^ie relief of man-s estate." BALARD... | |
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