 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1851 - 820 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... | |
 | R. W. Vanderkiste - 1852 - 380 pagine
...words of Lord Bacon, " is not a couch whereon 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pagine
...there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tarrasso 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,... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 298 pagine
...there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon 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... | |
 | 1852 - 978 pagine
...there were sought iu knowledge a couch 'hereupon 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... | |
 | 1852 - 632 pagine
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searchin; and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fa» prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind » raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding... | |
 | 1852 - 1070 pagine
...said, ' Knowledge is not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace fur 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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pagine
...KNOWLEDGE. — Knowledge is not a couch whereon 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 sort of commanding ground... | |
 | William Maxwell Wood - 1853 - 316 pagine
...sought, in the words of Lord Bacon, "as a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or 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... 
