 | 1836 - 554 trang
...vale below:' 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 charily, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." — (Bacon.) p. vi. Now, all this is... | |
 | 1837 - 860 trang
...vale below : " 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...Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Bacon. CONTENTMENT. — It is the general misfortune not to be content with what we have; not to see or cultivate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 trang
...vale below :" 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...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,... | |
 | 1838 - 488 trang
...philosophers, Francis Bacon, in the following energetic sentence, — " Certainly it is heaven and earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." As perspicuity should always be the marked characteristic of a report, we shall in this digested analysis,... | |
 | 1838 - 574 trang
...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 can... | |
 | 1838 - 728 trang
...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 can... | |
 | 518 trang
...SKETCH THE FOURTH— THE COUNTRY PARSON. " It Is Indeed a heaven upon earth, to see a man's mind mov« in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."— LORD BACON. Sydney Smith's fancy sketch of the machinery of a first-class clerical novel was on this... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 trang
...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 providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." many needless incumbrances and vexatious toils of fruitless endeavours she redeems and secures us.... | |
 | William M'Combie - 1839 - 264 trang
...vale below ;' 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 providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." While deeply sensible of the imperfections of these essays, which he again lays before the public,... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1839 - 390 trang
...sanctioned by experience, which one is glad to mellow by that soothing and holy apothegm of Bacon : — " It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." To return to the little dark-eyed Rachael. A very brief interval elapsed after her future fortunes... | |
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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. 
