 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...  Mississippi Valley Medical Monthly - Page 5041886Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 472 pages
...to stand in the window of a Castle, and to see a Battaile, and the Adventures thereof, below: But Ho pleasure is comparable, to the standing, upon the -vantage ground of Truth : (A hill not to be commanded, and where the Ayre is alwaies cleare and serene ;) A nd to see the Errours,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures (events, vicissitudes) thereof below : but 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),... | |
 | 1869 - 100 pages
...mony lengthen'd sage advices The husband frae the wife despises" — And, as my lord Bacon saith, " No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth," I am compelled to acknowledge that Tarn seems to have disregarded these gentle warnings, and delicate... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to 44 see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure...to 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,... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...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 adventures thereof below; but no pleasure...to 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... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...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 adventures thereof below; but 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),... | |
 | 1871
...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...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), and to see the errors,... | |
 | Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club (Bath, England) - Bath (England) - 1873 - 536 pages
...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...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), and to see the errors,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...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 ad-ventures thereof below : but 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],... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...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...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), and to see the errors,... | |
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