 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the...glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate." State what particular form of error each of the above metaphors, viz. the couch — the terrace —... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pages
...mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." State what particular form of error each of the above metaphors, viz. the couch — the terrace —... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit • sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." If the intricacies of a court are neither discovered nor illustrated with the same happiness as lif... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 pages
...upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — Lord Bacon. A SIGN OP WEAENESS. A person pointed out a man who had a profusion of rings on his... | |
 | William John Dawson - 1848 - 1186 pages
...; nor a fort and commanding ground, for strife and contention ; nor a shop for self-interest : but a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man." ©bituarg. OCR much beloved sister ELIZABETH POWERS of Nottingham, the wife of brother W. Powers,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale, and not a rich store-house for the...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. " It is commonly found that men have views to fame and ostentation, sometimes in uttering, and sometimes... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the...of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."* And the same ideas run all through his works from the first page to the last. Thus in the Essay " Of... | |
 | Medicine - 1849 - 612 pages
...raise itself upon , or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." If such be the true end of all knowledge, how emphatically so must it be of that branch of it which... | |
 | Crime - 1849 - 610 pages
...raise itself upon; ora fort of commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit and sale; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." Education, in its broadest and highest import, is the art of developing, forming, moulding, and perfecting... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...cannot fail profoundly to interest every lover of abstract speculation. " That," says Lord Bacon, " will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets,... | |
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... 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 for strife... 
