 It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground...  The British Prose Writers - Page 91821Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures7 thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the...standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to bo 1 As one would. At pleasure ; unrettrained. * Unpleasing. Unpleasant ; distasteftd. ' How dnres... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures (events, vicissitudes) thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene),... | |
 | 1869 - 100 pages
...mony lengthen'd sage advices The husband frae the wife despises" — And, as my lord Bacon saith, " No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth," I am compelled to acknowledge that Tarn seems to have disregarded these gentle warnings, and delicate... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1970 - 918 pages
...upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the...prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." Svave. Note omission of est. Magno. For meaning see Servius (Ad Aen. V.628): magnum procellosum, although... | |
 | 1860 - 900 pages
...window of acaetie and t> see a battio and th adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is con parable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a...the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in die vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." A*, the... | |
 | 1974 - 212 pages
...certainty it can have. Mo pleasure is comp'ar'abk lA (h? standing upon the vantage ground of truth—a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene, and to see the error and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below. 17. As long as we are not ever ready... | |
 | Henry Laurens - 1968 - 698 pages
...EXTRACTS from the Proceedings of the High Court of Vice-Admiralty in Charlestown, South-Carolina, &c. "No Pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the...commanded, and where the Air is always clear and serene." Lord BACON.T "What are usually called Libels undoubtedly keep great men in Awe, and are some Check... | |
 | Frederick Charles Copleston, Conference for the Study of Political Thought - 1983 - 257 pages
...upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below. Lucretius, De rerum... | |
 | Colin Burrows - 1990 - 580 pages
...vegetation change. ' . . . no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of Truth . . . and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below.' Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Truth, 1625 Preface This book is about ideas on the nature and causes of... | |
 | Colin Burrows - 1990 - 580 pages
...vegetation change. ' . . . no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of Truth . . . and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below.' Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Truth, 1625 Preface This book is about ideas on the nature and causes of... | |
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