 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 էջ
...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 than of the man... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1808 - 622 էջ
...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 age, and without... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 էջ
...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." BACON. \ } DR. JOHNSON. PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1751. • Audi Zfulla unjuam dt tnorte haminis cunctotio... | |
 | 1851 - 786 էջ
...sought ; — I think it is thus that he proceeds. . . . 'Knowledgeisnot a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate." * PARSON, (remorsefully.) — " Are those Lord Bacon's words? I am very sorry I spoke... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1820 - 200 էջ
...mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich store-house for the...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." It is true, indeed, that these motives are relatively bad; that they are only temporary; that they... | |
 | 1821 - 398 էջ
...mind to raise itself 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 the relief of man's estate." Such is the extent of the outline, such the symmetry in the arrangement, such the beauty of the style.... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 էջ
...mind to raise itself 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 and the relief of man's estate." He saw the true nature of the love of excelling, that it is only a temporary motive, and that it has... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 էջ
...mind to raise itself 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 the relief of man's estate." 9 Such is the extent of the outline, such the symmetry in the arrangement, such the beauty of the style.... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 էջ
...mind to raise itself 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 the relief of man's estate." Such is the extent of the outline, such the symmetry in the arrangement, such the beauty of the style.... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 էջ
...raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding 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."* But, as knowledge is thus various, and may be received into minds so variously constituted and affected... | |
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... 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 ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife... 
