 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
 | 1835 - 334 pages
...inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and 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,... | |
 | Caleb Ticknor - 1836 - 366 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,... | |
 | 1836 - 554 pages
...to stand upon the •shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the windows of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures...standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) anil to see the errors, and wanderings,... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pages
...a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand ÍD the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below ; hut no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth, (a hill not to be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 892 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,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 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,... | |
 | William M'Combie - 1839 - 264 pages
...the brightest in the life of man. " ' 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 where the air is always clear and serene, and to see the errors, and wanderings,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand irr the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and 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,... | |
 | 1867 - 740 pages
...stand upon the sea-shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the whitlow of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below ;" but nothing in our poor mind can equal the joy of him, who being solitary and comfortless, hears the roar... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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 wanderings,... | |
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