 | English literature - 1838 - 574 pages
...or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale; but rather a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man.' She agrees with him that physical science, however useful, is but a part, and a small part, of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1843 - 600 pages
...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." We see, then, that the beginning of knowledge, the way of knowledge, and the end of knowledge must... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...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. — Lord Bacon. CCLVII. The Middle and Lower Classes. — The middle and lower ranks, too numerous... | |
 | David Mushet - Animal welfare - 1839 - 350 pages
...a searching spirit ... a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself .... a shop for profit or sale : and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.— Lord Bacon. THE subject which now attracts our notice is one where the acts of torture are, in barbarity,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...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.—Advancement of Learning. UNIVERSITIES. As water, whether it he the dew of heaven or the springs... | |
 | David Mushet - Animal welfare - 1839 - 358 pages
...a searching spirit ... a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself .... a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.—Lord Bacon. THE subject which now attracts our notice is one where the acts of torture are,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...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 roan's estate. — Advancement of Learning. UNIVERSITIES. As water, whether it he the dew of heaven... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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...knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straightly conjoined and united together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - 1840 - 762 pages
...profit; but to give a true account of the gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man, and to erect a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." After the lapse of two centuries, it may be asserted with truth, that the noble purposes of the clergy... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - Learned institutions and societies - 1840 - 760 pages
...profit ; but to give a true account of the gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man, and to erect a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." After the lapse of two centuries, it may be asserted with truth, that the noble purposes of the clergy... | |
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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... 
