 ... 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 - Side 4431851Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 sider
...prospect; nor a fort and commanding ground for strife and contention ; nor a shop for profit or sale, but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." It is true that his work contains errors: but they are the errors of the times rather... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 sider
...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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 970 sider
...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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 sider
...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 foi profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1808 - 622 sider
...upon ; nor a sort of commanding ground for strife and contention ; nor a shop for profit and sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." At the end of ninety-four years of life, with none of the intellectual infirmities of... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 sider
...mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect : or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise ilaelf 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, and the relief of man's estate."... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 550 sider
...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1816 - 340 sider
...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 : and not a rich, itore-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate."... | |
 | 1851 - 786 sider
...wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for ft prond mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding...; or a shop for profit or sale — and not. a rich storebonse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate." — ADVAKCE.MENT or LEARKINO,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 sider
...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... | |
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