 | 1800 - 576 lehte
...(to use the grand language of Bacon) " not a couch whereon to rest a searching spirit, nor a terrass for a wandering and variable mind, to walk up and down with a fair prospect; nor a fort and commanding ground for strife and contention ; nor a shop for profit or sale, but a rich... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 lehte
...(to use the grand language of Bacon) " not a couch whereon to rest a searching spirit, nor a terrass for a wandering and variable mind, to walk up and down with a fair prospect; nor a fort and commanding ground for strife and contention ; nor a shop for profit or sale, but a rich... | |
 | William Jones - 1801 - 456 lehte
...error. If there are any philosophers so void of understanding as to regard the science of nature only as a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; and to esteem themselves as licentiates in incredulity, because * If the reader desires to have a taste... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 lehte
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest at searching and restless spirit; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop foi profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 970 lehte
...there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect j or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 lehte
...of reason for the benefit and use of man :—as if there were sought in knowledge a coucb, whereupon to rest a. searching and restless spirit: or a terrace...upon: or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention : or a shop for profit and sale : and not a rich store house for the glory of the Creator,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1838 - 580 lehte
...She does not act (De Augment. Sclent.) as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to cast a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for...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,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 550 lehte
...were sought, in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 594 lehte
...As if there were sought in knowledge, a couch, whereupon to ease a restless and searching spirit i or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down in, at liberty unrestrained ; or some lofty tower of state, from which a proud and ambitious mind may... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 lehte
...there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit, or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator,... | |
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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 and 
