 ... 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
 | Thomas Griffiths - 1846 - 462 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 a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." BALARD... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 páginas
...wandering and variable mind to walk up and aown 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. —... | |
 | 1744 - 596 páginas
...down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud man to raise himself upon ; or a fort of commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; — but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and relief of man's estate. 128 SINCERE RECONCILIATION.... | |
 | 1846 - 644 páginas
...itself upon; nor a commanding fort for strife and contention; nor yet a shop for profit and sale; but a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. — Jlacon. WIT is brushwood — Judgment is timber. The first makes the brightest flume;... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 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. " It is the presence or absence of this last consideration which gives its real character... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 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... | |
 | 1847 - 566 páginas
...prospect ; or a tower of ' state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or com' manding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit...— and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Crea' tor, and the relief of man's estate !' Mr Burton, we think, will excuse us for having given our... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...itself upon ; nor a commanding for strife and contention ; nor yet a shop for profit and sale ; but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — BACON. The present state of the Jews is a greal proof of Christianity. It is a surprising... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 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." State what particular form of error each of the above metaphors, viz. the couch —... | |
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