 | John Arthur Thomson - 1903 - 582 pagina’s
...thankful — we must be scientific when we propose so to be. " Science," Bacon said, " is not a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect." What we mean by saying that we need not be always scientific is simply that the scientific mood is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pagina’s
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a search25 ing and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storeso house, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 636 pagina’s
...mysteries of God. Knowledge is not a couch, whereupn to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...strife 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. But this is that... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1906 - 386 pagina’s
...With him, " Knowledge was not a couch whereon 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 sort of commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit and sale; but a rich storehouse... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 540 pagina’s
...men. As if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a restless spirit; or a tarasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich... | |
 | Perkins School for the Blind - 1907 - 462 pagina’s
...learning and knowledge " not as a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; nor a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; nor a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; nor.a fort or commanding ground for strife... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1907 - 192 pagina’s
...spirit; nor a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; nor a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; nor a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; nor a shop for profit and sale; but a rich... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908 - 662 pagina’s
...further success than opening the eyes of many." — Home &- Foreign Misi. Record of the Free Church. variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect...strife 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."* Religion,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 774 pagina’s
...Knowledge is not a couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering vidual meannesses for the public good.— Lincoln. The great difference Iwtween npou ; or a sort of commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale ; but... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pagina’s
...a couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering mind to wnlk te not the Pierian spring ; there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sober sort of commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit and sale : but a rich storehouse... | |
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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... 
