 | 1849 - 610 Seiten
...state for a proud mind to 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...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... | |
 | 1849 - 612 Seiten
...fur a proud mind to 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...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... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 Seiten
...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."* And the same ideas run all through his works from the first page to the last. Thus in the Essay " Of... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 Seiten
...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 - 580 Seiten
...of reason to the benefit and use of men, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch. &c., «be., and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man? s estate.'' Such, then, is the use of knowledge. It constitutes a rich store-house, whence we... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1849 - 580 Seiten
...gift of reason to the benefit and use of men, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch. &c., &c., and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man 1 s estate.' Such, then, is the use of knowledge. It constitutes a rich store-house, whence we... | |
 | Seba Smith - 1850 - 214 Seiten
...for a proud mind to 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,...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." PART SECOND. DEMONSTRATIONS IN GEOMETRY. REMARK. — Before entering upon this part of our work, it... | |
 | 1850 - 824 Seiten
...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. But this is that, which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 Seiten
...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." He then weighs the dignity of knowledge " in the balance with other things," and takes the value by... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - 1850 - 786 Seiten
...their noblest exaltation ; and now at length subservient to the true purposes of our being, become " a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." Whatever view we take of the inborn faculties of man — whether we regard them as physical, social,... | |
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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... 
