 It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground...  The claims of the gospel on the young - Էջ 1Joel Parker - 1847Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | George Jabet - 1848 - 284 էջ
...human nature. The poet saith excellently well : ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand...adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1849 - 702 էջ
...striking passage from the first Essay, on Truth : " It is a pleasure to stand on the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand...the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventurers thereof, below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 էջ
...inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand...adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1851 - 746 էջ
...inferior to the rest, wiith yet excellently well : ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand...adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 էջ
...rest, saith yet excellently well, ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of...adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always... | |
 | 1851 - 724 էջ
...the rest, paith yet excellently well : ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to gee shipg tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window...battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no plea-ure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded,... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 էջ
...expression, or the thorough honesty and candour of spirit. Bacon, paraphrasing the language of Lucretius, has said, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore,...thereof, below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth — a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is... | |
 | David Thomas - 468 էջ
...INCREASE UNTO MORE UNGODLINESS." " It is a pleasure," says Bacon, " to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand...the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventurers thereof, below ; but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... | |
 | William Sharp - 1853 - 286 էջ
...inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well . * It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand...adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always... | |
 | 1868 - 756 էջ
...pleasure," says Lucretius by the mouth of the great Lord Bacon, " to stand upon the sea-shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand...see a battle and the adventures thereof below ;" but nothing in our poor mind can equal the joy of him, who being solitary and comfortless, hears the roar... | |
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