 | George Herbert West - 1867 - 52 sayfa
...the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground of truth and to see the errors, and wanderings, and...mists, and tempests, in the vale below : so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.'"" If, standing on such vantage-ground,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 sayfa
...vantageground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below ;" so always that thU prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to... | |
 | 1860 - 900 sayfa
...vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in die vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride." A*, the... | |
 | 1909 - 378 sayfa
...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 of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and... | |
 | Henry Laurens - 1968 - 698 sayfa
...EXTRACTS from the Proceedings of the High Court of Vice-Admiralty in Charlestown, South-Carolina, &c. "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 clear and serene." Lord BACON.T "What are usually... | |
 | Frederick Charles Copleston, Conference for the Study of Political Thought - 1983 - 257 sayfa
...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...wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below. Lucretius, De rerum natura II, as quoted in Francis Bacon's essay Of Truth. I It is generally agreed... | |
 | Colin Burrows - 1990 - 580 sayfa
...Contributors to the development of the theory of vegetation change. ' . . . no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of Truth . . . and...wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below.' Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Truth, 1625 Preface This book is about ideas on the nature and causes of... | |
 | Colin Burrows - 1990 - 580 sayfa
...Contributors to the development of the theory of vegetation change. ' . . . no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of Truth . . . and...wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below.' Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Truth, 1625 Preface This book is about ideas on the nature and causes of... | |
 | John Bryant - 1993 - 331 sayfa
...self and truth. An image borrowed from Montaigne in Bacon's discussion "Of Truth" reveals the problem: [N]o pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air-is always clear and serene), and to see the errors,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sayfa
...of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth ... and...wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman, fssays, "Of Truth" (1597-1 625).... | |
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... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. 
