 | Detlev Gohrbandt - 1998 - 320 sivua
...ist doch ein Ungewisser und schwankender. Einerseits also lobt Bacon das Dichterwort, wonach »[...] no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.« Aber sofort fügt er als Kommentar und Korrektur an, diese Anhöhe sei »a hill not to be commanded,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 sivua
...that beautified the Sect, that was otherwise inferiour to the rest, 50 saith yet excellently well: It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see...standing, upon the vantage ground of Truth: (A hill 55 not to be commanded, and where the Ayre is alwaies cleare and serene;) And to see the Err ours,... | |
 | Howard B. White - 1968 - 286 sivua
...only in the mind. My second instance is that of his paraphrases of Lucretius, where Bacon says that "no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the...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... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - 2002 - 368 sivua
...to see ships tossed 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...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... | |
 | Don Fowler - 2002 - 550 sivua
...DK: 1 [The opening section of Book 2 is famously paraphrased by Francis Bacon in his essay On Truth: 'no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 sivua
...upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures0 thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the...upon the vantage ground of Truth' (a hill not to be commanded,0 and where the air is always clear and serene),0 'and to see the errors, and wanderings,... | |
 | James Shane - 2002 - 710 sivua
...reason. Demosthenes: What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. Bacon: No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. Boileau: Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely. Sterne: Endless is the search... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 2002 - 556 sivua
...see ships tossed 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 on the vantage-ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 sivua
...the daughter of time, not authority." — "Men prefer to believe what they prefer to be true." — "No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth." — "Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion." — "There are three parts in truth:... | |
 | Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie - 2007
...that beautified the Sect, that was otherwise inferiour to the rest, saith yet excellently well: It is a pleasure to stand in the window of a Castle, and...below: But no pleasure is comparable, to the standing on the vantage ground of Truth: (A hill not to be commanded, and where the Ayre is alwaies cleare and... | |
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed 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... 
