 ... 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 a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon...  The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book - Page 59by Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 12 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1871 - 870 lehte
...; for some have sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk...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."... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 lehte
...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...upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contentioni or a shop, for profit and sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the CREATOR,... | |
 | 1844 - 276 lehte
...men: as if there were sought in knowledge n couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk...upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground, for strife, or contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator,... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 lehte
...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...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — Bacon's Advancement of Learning. 14. Would I then withhold the Bible from the cottager and the... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1845 - 144 lehte
...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...the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."—In brief, learning is sought as the means to an end,—and that end is too usually a worldly... | |
 | 1845 - 562 lehte
...may we rise, step by step, to a more lofty knowledge ; which, if we be right minded, ' will not be a tower of state for a proud mind to ' raise itself...and ' contention — or a shop for profit or sale — but a rich storehouse ' for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.'* * Lord Bacon.... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 lehte
...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 a fair prospect ; or a tower %f state for a proud mind to raise itself upon : or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention... | |
 | 1845 - 608 lehte
...which, if we be right-minded, ' will not be a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upen — or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention — or a shop for profit or sale — hut a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." * Lord Bacon... | |
 | 1846 - 492 lehte
...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...glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." — In brief, learning is sought as the means to an end, — and that end is too usually a worldly... | |
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