 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 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...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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...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... | |
 | 1844 - 276 sivua
...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, (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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 sivua
...upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle, and the adventure thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth: (an hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 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 upon the vantage-ground of truth— (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene}... | |
 | 1847 - 796 sivua
...the consciousness of maintaining the right is a richer reward than the highest literary honors. Yet ' no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the...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... | |
 | George Jabet - 1848 - 284 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...to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests in the sea below ;'f so * New Atlantis.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - 1778 - 392 sivua
...battle, and the adventures thereof below ; • •. n<i fleai-ure 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 serene — and to see the errors, the wanderings, the mists, and tempests,... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1849 - 702 sivua
...see a battle, and the adventurers 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 serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests in... | |
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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... 
