 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pagine
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse 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 a fort or commanding ground,... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pagine
...knowledge being in his view "not a couck 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 miud to raise itself upon ; or a fort, of commanding ground... | |
 | 1841 - 530 pagine
...that knowledge is not " a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, nor a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect,'" but " a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."... | |
 | James Bush - 1841 - 124 pagine
...there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrass for a wandering and variable mind, to walk up and down with i a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 326 pagine
...there were sought in knowledge a couch, where to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terras, 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 a fort or commanding ground... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 pagine
...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 a fort or commanding ground,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 pagine
...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 a fort or commanding ground... | |
 | Edward Forbes - 1843 - 32 pagine
...department, that it " is not 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 a fort or commanding ground... | |
 | 1843 - 450 pagine
...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 a fort or commanding ground,... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1843 - 256 pagine
...is not sought in Knowledge a Couch whereon to rest a searching and a 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 a Fort or commanding Ground... | |
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... 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... 
