 ... 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 terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 4431851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1838 - 728 páginas
...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 and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; but rather a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man.' She agrees... | |
 | 1838 - 574 páginas
...or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale; but rather a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man.' She agrees with him that physical science, however useful, is but a part, and a small part, of... | |
 | 1843 - 600 páginas
...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...STOREHOUSE for the GLORY of THE CREATOR and the RELIEF OF MAN'S ESTATE." We see, then, that the beginning of knowledge, the way of knowledge, and the end of... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...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...storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of roan's estate. — Advancement of Learning. UNIVERSITIES. As water, whether it he the dew of heaven... | |
 | David Mushet - 1839 - 350 páginas
...knowledge a couch to rest a searching spirit ... a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself .... a shop for profit or sale : and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.— Lord Bacon. THE subject which now attracts our notice is one where the acts of torture... | |
 | David Mushet - 1839 - 358 páginas
...knowledge a couch to rest a searching spirit ... a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself .... a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.—Lord Bacon. THE subject which now attracts our notice is one where the acts of torture... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 páginas
...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 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. —... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - 1840 - 760 páginas
...profit ; but to give a true account of the gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man, and to erect a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." After the lapse of two centuries, it may be asserted with truth, that the noble purposes... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - 1840 - 762 páginas
...profit; but to give a true account of the gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man, and to erect a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." After the lapse of two centuries, it may be asserted with truth, that the noble purposes... | |
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