 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and aown with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud...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. —... | |
 | 1744 - 596 pages
...for a prey. KNOWLEDGE 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...a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud man to raise himself upon ; or a fort of commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variahle mind to walk up and down with a fail prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itselt upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale;... | |
 | 1846 - 644 pages
...and restless spirit; nor a. terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down on ; nor a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; nor a commanding fort for strife and contention; nor yet a shop for profit and sale; but a rich storehouse,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...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...relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straightly conjoined... | |
 | Hendrik De Man - 524 pages
...psychological root of the socialism of intellectuals. CHAPTER EIGHT THE SOCIALISM OF INTELLECTUALS . for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. FRANCIS BACON I AM well aware that when I now go on to speak of the socialism of intellectuals (after... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pages
...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...relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined... | |
 | Edward LeRoy Long Jr. - 1992 - 250 pages
...value of philosophy for affairs of state, as well as Bacon's belief that knowledge is best used "as a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate," have been utilized on the premise that the educational institution trains individuals who assume, usually... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...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...for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate.27 Sloth, vain-glory, envy, pride, greed - it is failings like these which Bacon describes here.... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...observed...' What is sought is not self-importance and self-flattery for the human race, but, instead, a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate. Cultivation of knowledge, religious, moral, civil, natural, is a religious and moral exercise. ' All... | |
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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... 
