 ... 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...  The Saturday Magazine ... - Σελίδα 81842Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1871 - 870 σελίδες
...final end of knowledge ; for some have sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and...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 storehouse,... | |
 | 1851 - 620 σελίδες
...affairs of others. Remember this. KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge is not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and...for a proud mind to raise Itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale; but a rich storehouse for... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 σελίδες
...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...for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contentioni or a shop, for profit and sale ; and not a rich storehouse... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1845 - 144 σελίδες
...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...for a proud 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... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 σελίδες
...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...for a proud 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 σελίδες
...and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and...walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower %f state for a proud mind to raise itself upon : or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention... | |
 | 1845 - 562 σελίδες
...may we rise, step by step, to a more lofty knowledge ; which, if we be right minded, ' will not be 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 or sale — but a rich storehouse... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths - 1846 - 462 σελίδες
...Inductive Philosophy," real knowledge being in his view "not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and...a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit and sale, but a rich store-house... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths - 1846 - 440 σελίδες
...Inductive Philosophy," real knowledge being in his view " not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and...a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale, but a rich store-house... | |
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