Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly,... The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ... - Página 3por Francis Bacon - 1825Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 páginas
...wanderings, and mists, -and tempests in the vale helow :' so always that this prospect he with pity, .ml not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind more in charity, rest in providence, -;:.il turn upon the poles of truth. lmlh of civil husiness, it... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1847 - 844 páginas
...the evidence of those who knew what was the life within them ; for as a modern philosopher says, " Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." " О how happy is the life of monks," cries Alcuiu, addressing the brethren of Salzburg ; " life, pleasing... | |
| 1848 - 592 páginas
...destitute." The Convention is to meet again in the Mission House, New York, on the second Tuesday of April. — Lord Bacon. LADY HEWLEY'S CHARITY. (Continued from page 420.) WE are at a loss to know on what... | |
| 1909 - 378 páginas
...see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly,...truth to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honor of man's... | |
| Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - 704 páginas
...nature of a stumble."204 "Our very walking," as Goethe puts it, "is a series of falls." Bacon writes, "certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of the earth." Shelley's mind moved in charity, but turned anywhere except upon the poles of the earth.... | |
| William Blake - 1966 - 964 páginas
...work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit . . . Pretence to Religion to destroy Religion. , To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged; even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's... | |
| Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 páginas
...seriousness to the observation. The section culminates in another weighty and 'incontrovertible' sentence: Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. [VI, 378] The development so far discussed is contained within a single extended paragraph. In this... | |
| Frederick Charles Copleston, Conference for the Study of Political Thought - 1983 - 257 páginas
...paper. As Bacon says, so long as one contemplates the errors of others with pity rather than pride "it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." IV John Locke is a more ambiguous figure in the history of modern European thought than Bacon. The... | |
| Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 páginas
...the point. Bacon's repeated announcement of his logical organization in the Essays is something new: 'To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business ("Of Truth," 48); "But let us pass from this part of predictions [of 22. Jonson, Discoveries, 8:622,... | |
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