 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 of...  The Freemason's Monthly Magazine - Page 2571864Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in...standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings,... | |
 | 1822 - 688 pages
...is a pleasure," says Lucretius by the mouth of Lord Bacon, " to stand upon the sea-shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in...see a battle and the adventures thereof below;" but nothing, in my mind, can equal the joy of him, who being solitary and comfortless, hears the roar of... | |
 | 1824 - 724 pages
...see ships tossed upon the sea ,- a pica Mire to stand in the window of a castle and to soc a battle j but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the Vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings,... | |
 | 1824 - 512 pages
...see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to iiund in Hie window of a cattle and tu see a bailie ; but no pleasure is comparable to- the standing upon the 'vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and .wliere Ihe air is always clear and serene), and to tee the errors, and wanderings,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...to the rest, saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and " to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand " in...standing upon the vantage " ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and " where the air is always clear and serene), and to see " the errors, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well: " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and " to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand " in...standing upon the vantage " ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and " where the air is always clear and serene), and to see " the errors, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 552 pages
...rest, saith yet excellent well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, ft OF TRUTH. 5 " to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand " in...standing upon the vantage " ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and " where the air is always clear and serene), and to see " the errors, and... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure ' to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of...standing upon the vantage ground of truth, a hill not to be commanded, and xvhere the air is always clear and serene : ' and to see the errors, and wanderings,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in...standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 pages
...inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in...standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings,... | |
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