 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
 | 1868 - 756 pages
...pleasure," says Lucretius by the mouth of the great 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 our poor mind can equal the joy of him, who being solitary and comfortless, hears the roar... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; apleasure to stand in thewindow of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures...no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantageground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene),... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see reator, and the relief of man's estate. But * nearly...planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contempla not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene; and to see the errors, and wanderings,... | |
 | mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854 - 318 pages
...with, than to confer." CHAPTEE XI. 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...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),... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...his chosen. The poet saith excellently well, ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in...a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures of it below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, and to... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 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,... | |
 | Manchester papers - 1856 - 346 pages
...WG BARRETT. ON CIRCUIT. BY ALBANY FONBLANQUE. " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea — a. pleasure to stand...to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a bill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and... | |
 | Edward STORROW - 1856 - 122 pages
...a great and glorious change. "It is a pleasure," says Bacon, " to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in...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 calm and serene... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 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...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,)... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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 a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures7 thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
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