 ... 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...  Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - Página 441906Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1843 - 600 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 páginas
...followed in the University, — tinphilosophy of Aristotle ; real knowledge being in his view "not a couck whereupon to rest a searching and restless 'Spirit...a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud miud to raise itself upon ; or a fort, of commanding... | |
 | 1841 - 500 páginas
...remembering, that knowledge is not " a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, nor a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect," but " a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 páginas
...and use of men: as if there were Bought in knowledge, a couch, whereupon to rest a searching •iid 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 coinmnnjjng... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1843 - 450 páginas
...but 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...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... | |
 | Edward Forbes - 1843 - 32 páginas
...That which Lord Bacon said of all knowledge is especially true of this department, that it " is not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless...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... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1843 - 256 páginas
...but that, as Bacon says, " there is not sought in Knowledge a Couch whereon to rest a searching and a 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... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 páginas
...but 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...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... | |
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