 | Mark Girouard - 1978 - 358 σελίδες
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight . . . [making of knowledge] a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect . . . [and] sometimes for ornament and reputation . . . [using it as] a tower of state, for a proud... | |
 | Elisabeth Strauss - 1996 - 226 σελίδες
...Bacon befürchtet hatte. als "couch. whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit: a terrace. for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...state. for a proud mind to raise itself upon: or a ford or commanding ground. for strife and contention: or a shop. for profit. or sale: and not a rieh... | |
 | John M. Lynch - 2000 - 404 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...and ' contention — or a, shop for profit or sale — but a rich storehouse ' for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.'* ! [David... | |
 | Bernard S. Phillips - 268 σελίδες
...or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or...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, (quoted... | |
 | Bernard S. Phillips - 268 σελίδες
...if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and wandering spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or... | |
 | Marjorie Swann - 2001 - 300 σελίδες
...frequently "have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge ... for lucre and profession" or to secure "a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon," instead of striving to fashion "a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 2002 - 412 σελίδες
...before it ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to elevate itself upon ; or a fort or commandirig ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; but as a rich storehouse for the Creator's glory and the relief of man's estate. Having vindicated... | |
 | David Read - 2005 - 190 σελίδες
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort and commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse,... | |
 | Stephen John Campbell, Stephen L. Campbell - 2004 - 430 σελίδες
...were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and a 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 man to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit... | |
 | Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, Ian Hunter - 2006 - 242 σελίδες
...were to be sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect . . . and not a rich store house, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate'.77 Elsewhere... | |
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... as if there were sought in knowledge 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... 
