 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 642 sider
...tranquil mind, and a confcience void of offence, fo feelingly defcribed in this fentence of lord Bacon : * Certainly it is heaven ' upon earth to have a man's mind move in Charity, • reft in Providence, and turn upon the poles of • Truth.' If Johnfon could ever be faid to be... | |
 | John Feltham - 1799 - 146 sider
...of the Almighty j whose alone it is to give, and not receive. I.XXIX. •Certainly (says Lord BACON) it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in c [ 18 ] charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. LXXX. CHRIST'S coat, says one... | |
 | 1866 - 992 sider
...the condition of a well-regulated mind, in its actions through life, when he observes,—"Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth." It is evident, from the above, that these " spirit worshippers" advocate pantheistic materialism in... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 586 sider
...vantage-ground of Truth t and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests of the vale beneath; so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling, or pride." BACON'S ESSAYS; I perfectly agree with a philosophical writer, whom I cannot always approve, when he... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 sider
...clear and serene:) and to see the errors, and wand rings, and mists, and tempests in the vale below : so always that this prospect be with pity, and not...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1838 - 580 sider
...symptoms in the present state of society, this is the most frightful. ' Certainly,' says Lord Bacon, ' it is Heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity'—but he adds also, ' to rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.' But what truth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 sider
...clear and serene,) and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. The pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 sider
...history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. SIB WALTER RALEGH. CERTAINLY it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. LORD BACON. IT will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing... | |
 | 1814 - 568 sider
...to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests in the vale below. So always," he adds, " that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." Acti Labores jucundi. The remembrance of dangers that are past is pleasant, particularly if we have... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 sider
...mind of man to be settled, landed, and fortified in the certainty of truth, and from thence to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men. learning man excelleth man in that, wherein man ex* celleth beasts; that by learning man ascendeth... | |
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and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, " and wanderings up and down of other men." So always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence,... 
