| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 pages
...(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... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest si searching and restless spirit ; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...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... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...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...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... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...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...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... | |
| Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...their gift of reason for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit...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... | |
| Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1816 - 340 pages
...their gift of reason for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a conch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit: or a terrace for * wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect : or a tower of state for a... | |
| England - 1851 - 786 pages
...these gifts 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;...down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for ft prond mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 576 pages
...use of men. As if there were sought in knowledge, a couch, whereupon to ease a restless and searching spirit; 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... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 594 pages
...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 pages
...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...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,... | |
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