 | 1836 - 596 Seiten
...they ought to enter their profession, not as a shop for profit and sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate ? " The second reason against the separation is, that thereby the Crown would be deprived of its prerogative... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - 1840 - 762 Seiten
...settled disposition to direct philosophy to the noble objects emphatically expressed by Lord Bacon, ' the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.' " * The legislature of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay extended numerous and important aids to... | |
 | 1846 - 586 Seiten
...spirituous drink. ETHNOGRAPHY. FI11ST PAPER. THE true end of knowledge, as Lord Bacon finely observes, is ' the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate ; ' yet how few cultivate their minds, or lay up stores in their intellectual garner for this blessed... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 Seiten
...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." * The true lover of knowledge, then, is not one who is merely seeking " variety or delight" to pass his leisure... | |
 | 1852 - 978 Seiten
...strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale, •^ not [instead of?] a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. —The words in italics represent the changes rendered necessary by the suggested variation of style fttn... | |
 | 1857 - 996 Seiten
...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. The same ideas run all through his works, from the first page to the last. Thus in the first of his Essays... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 882 Seiten
...must finish, but to which he hopes to give " initia non contemnencJa." they can subdue but a small part of the new world which lies before them. (19.)...have been studied. And as he showed his wisdom in coupling together things divine and human, so has he shown it also in tracing the demarcation between... | |
 | 1862 - 490 Seiten
...study nature, they must not forget God or man ; for " the true end of knowledge," as Bacon holds, " is the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." It is often said that no man of original and decided genius, with sufficient opportunity and means... | |
 | 1868 - 660 Seiten
...studying the stars not for filthy lucre, but in the words of another great Cambridge philosopher, " for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." The sentence, however, which of all others in the book shows how unfairly * See a Disruxsuin of a differential... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 Seiten
...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." The rest of the first book was given to an argument upon the Dignity of Learning ; and the second book,... | |
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... 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 contention; or a shop... 
