 ... 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; or...  The Retrospective Review.. - الصفحة 288المحررون: - 1821عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...prospect; nor a fort and commanding ground for strife and contention ; nor a shop for profit or sale, but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." It is true that his work contains errors: but they are the errors of the times rather than of the man... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 970
...tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale; and not...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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale; and not...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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop foi profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the...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... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...upon ; nor a sort of commanding ground for strife and contention ; nor a shop for profit and sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." At the end of ninety-four years of life, with none of the intellectual infirmities of age, and without... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...commanding ground for strife and contention : or a shop for profit and sale : and not a rich store house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." BACON. \ } DR. JOHNSON. PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1751. • Audi Zfulla unjuam dt tnorte haminis cunctotio... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not...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... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 786
...tower of state for ft prond mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale — and not. a rich storebonse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate." — ADVAKCE.MENT or LEARKINO,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and...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... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...learning hath ever relied as on a firm foundation which can never be shaken : est sapientia iijilux suis." Bacon saw clearly that our motives for the...to generate bad passions ; but he was not blind to its advantages : he saw that it led to the acquisition of that portion of knowledge for which it operated,... | |
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