 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 pagine
...shore, and see a ship tossed at sea ; " or to be in a fortification, and see two armies join battle " up"on a plain. But it is a pleasure incomparable, for the *' mind to be seated by learning in the fortress of truth, " and from thence to view the errors and labours... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pagine
...eequora ventLs, $c. It is a view of delight, saith he, to stand or walk upon the shore-side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea ; or to be...labours, and wanderings up and down of other men. 1 Lastly, leaving the vulgar arguments — that by learning man excelleth man in that, wherein man... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pagine
...vcntis, S$c. It is a view of delight, saith he, to stand or walk upon the shore-side, and to see & ship tossed with tempest upon the sea ; or to be in...labours, and wanderings up and down of other men. learning man excelkth man in that, wherein man excelleth beasts ; that by learning man ascendeth to... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1820 - 200 pagine
...and to see a ship tost with tempest " upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window " of a castle, and to see two battles join upon a " plain: but it is a pleasure incomparable for th« " mind of man to be settled, landed, and fortified " in the certainty of truth, and from thence... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pagine
...turbantibus aequora ventis, &c. ' It is a view of delight, to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea ; or to be...fortified in the certainty of truth ; and from thence to decry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men.' " (b)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pagine
...perpetually interchangeable. " It is a view of delight, to stand or walk upon the "shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon " the sea; or to be..." battles join upon a plain; but it is a pleasure incompar" able, for the mind of man to be settled, landed, and for" tified in the certainty of truth;... | |
 | 1826 - 446 pagine
...science. It is an old maxim, " buy truth and sell it not," and the poet Lucretius very happily says, " it is a pleasure incomparable for the mind of man,...labours, and wanderings up and down of other men." The investigation of nature cannot fail to be valuable. It engages all our intellectual faculties to... | |
 | Leeds grammar sch - 1828 - 364 pagine
...is delightful (says he) to stand or walk upon the shore, and to see a ship tossed with a tempest on the sea ; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two armies engaging on the plain. But it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man to be settled,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pagine
...turbantibus aequora ventis, &c. ' It is a view of delight, to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea; or to be...fortified in the certainty of truth ; and from thence to decry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men.' " (b)... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pagine
...perpetually interchangeable. • " It is a view of delight, to stand or walk upon the "shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon " the sea; or to be..." battles join upon a plain; but it is a pleasure incompar" able, for the mind of man to be settled, landed, andfor" tified in the certainty of truth;... | |
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It is a view of delight (saith he) to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain. But it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man... 
