 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...and down of other men." " So always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." many needless incumbrances and vexatious toils of fruitless endeavours she redeems and secures us.... | |
 | William M'Combie - Conduct of life - 1839 - 264 pages
...tempests in the vale below ;' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." While deeply sensible of the imperfections of these essays, which he again lays before the public,... | |
 | Help - 1839 - 120 pages
...conclusions of any theory spun i'rom the human brain. HORSLEY. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. BACON. THE BEST STUDY. Next to the study of the Scriptures, history best becometh a gentleman, Church-history... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1854 - 522 pages
...DRUID. SKETCH THE FOURTH— THE COUNTRY PARSON. " It is indeed a heaven upon earth, to see a man'i mind move in charity, rest In Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." — LOKD BACON. Sydney Smith's fancy sketch of tho machinery of a first-class clerical novel was on... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business; it will be acknowledged... | |
 | John Bainbridge Smith, Richard Hooker - Ecclesiastical law - 1840 - 508 pages
...LITERATURE. FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. " Hurra eiKrxi/uo'Kws Kal Kara Ta£tK ytvlaQui.'" — 1 Con. xiv. 40. '' Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth ." — LORD BACON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JGF & J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE,... | |
 | Thomas Brightwell - Bible - 1840 - 416 pages
...conduct of the people. — K. 20. See Exod. xiii, 9, and note. 21. As the days of heaven upon the earth. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Lord Bacon's Essay on Truth. 24. This was fulfilled in the reign of Solomon : see 2 Chron. ix,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...before it, and not in its possessions. Of the sufficiency of virtue he has said no less than this : " Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." We doubt if a loftier or more beautiful sentiment can be found in any writer of antiquity. It is true,... | |
 | Christianity - 1845 - 1036 pages
...and sincere conviction that he is well entitled to do so. Lord Bacon has beautifully observed that " certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." In our view, it is equally certain that such a mind is formed to be a guiding one ; and to this class,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 480 pages
...be ever to love a man who can only talk of votes, seats, rolls, and qualifications ! " CHAPTER XVI. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth — LORD BACON. " WELL, what do you think of our member?" was Miss Pratt's first salutation to Gertrude,... | |
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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. 
