 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...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...comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where trie air is always clear and serene), and to see the errours... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...shore, and 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... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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 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),... | |
 | Newton Abbot College - 1875 - 354 pages
...show the masks and mummeries and triumphs, of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelight. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. In great place ask counsel of both times — of the ancient time what is best and of the latter time... | |
 | United States - 1912 - 518 pages
...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? ... No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the...vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, the wanderings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below : so always that this prospect be with pity,... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - Didactic poetry, Latin - 1970 - 918 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...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,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...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 and... | |
 | Henry Laurens - 1968 - 698 pages
...EXTRACTS from the Proceedings of the High Court of Vice-Admiralty in Charlestown, South-Carolina, &c. "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." Lord BACON.T "What are usually... | |
 | John Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 331 pages
...self and truth. An image borrowed from Montaigne in Bacon's discussion "Of Truth" reveals the problem: [N]o 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), and to see the errors,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...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 standing upon the vantage ground of truth ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and... | |
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