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" ... 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 and... "
The Catholic Penny Magazine - Page 260
1884
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The Bible class magazine [ed. by C.H. Bateman]., Volume 2

National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. — Lord Bacon. A SIGN OP WEAENESS. A person pointed out a man who had a profusion of...
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Scholarship examinations of 1846/47 (-1853/54).

Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...; 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." State what particular form of error each of the above metaphors, viz. the couch —...
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General Report on Public Instruction, in the Lower Provinces of the Bengal ...

Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pages
...; 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." State what particular form of error each of the above metaphors, viz. the couch —...
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Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, Volume 3

Henry Barnard - 1849 - 580 pages
...reason to the benefit and use of men, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch. &c., &c., and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man 1 s estate.' Such, then, is the use of knowledge. It constitutes a rich store-house, whence we should...
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Annual Report on Public Schools in Rhode Island

1849 - 580 pages
...reason to the benefit and use of men, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch. &c., «be., and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man? s estate.'' Such, then, is the use of knowledge. It constitutes a rich store-house, whence we should...
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The American Whig Review

1849 - 1428 pages
...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."* And the same ideas run all through his works from the first page to the last. Thus...
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The Prisoners' Friend: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Criminal ..., Volume 1

1849 - 610 pages
...upon; ora fort of commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit and sale; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." Education, in its broadest and highest import, is the art of developing, forming, moulding,...
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Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding

Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." — Bacon. LOVE OF IMMORTALITY. " Leaving the vulgar arguments, that by learning man...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 4

1849 - 612 pages
...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." If such be the true end of all knowledge, how emphatically so must it be of that branch...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science

1851 - 588 pages
...or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale— and noi a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's catate." — ADVANCEMENT OF LBÀRNINO, Book I. cultivation. Let me here, my child, invite you...
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