 ... 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...  Scholarship examinations of 1846/47 (-1853/54). - Seite 5von Bengal council of educ - 1848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Seba Smith - 1850 - 214 Seiten
...and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon...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."... | |
 | 1851 - 588 Seiten
...gifts of reason to the benefit and use of men ; aa if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace...walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower ol stale for a proud min-Л to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 Seiten
...and seldom sincerely to give a tiucjiccoimt of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : isunderstanding in the grounds thereof, it may well...appear these men do not observe or consider, that tarrasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of... | |
 | 1850 - 824 Seiten
...and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there 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 with a fair prospect; or a tower of... | |
 | Mary Kirby - 1850 - 208 Seiten
...PARK'S TRAVELS. " Knowledge is not a conch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; nor a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down in ; nor a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; nor a commanding fort for strife... | |
 | Mary Kirby - 1850 - 204 Seiten
...PARK'S TRAvELS. " Knowledge is not a coach whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; nor a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down in ; nor a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; nor a commanding fort for strife... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1850 - 652 Seiten
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 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 Seiten
...and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there 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... | |
 | 1892 - 678 Seiten
...the more eminent workers make some fragment of a fragment their own. Knowledge во gained is not *' a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon." PROF. SEEAT thought — I suppose, until I un deceived him— that every one knew that Pernel was a... | |
 | Medical Association of Georgia - 1910 - 508 Seiten
...the human mind, we can but truly feel as the author, who said: "That knowledge is not a couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace...walk up and down, with a fair prospect, or a tower of the state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort, or commanding ground for strife and contention,... | |
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