 | 1801 - 446 pages
...Its a pleasure to stand upon the shore and see ships tost upon the sea: — a pleasure to stand, on 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... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...the sectf which Was otherwise inferior to the rest, says yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and " to see ships tost upon...window of a castle, and to see a " battle, and the adventures thereof below; " but no pleasure is comparable to the stand" ing upon the vantage ground... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well : " 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well : " 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and " to see ships tost upon...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 u ground... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships toss'd upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventares thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships toss'd 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... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...pleasure," says Lucretius by the mouth of Lord Bacon, " to stand upon the sea-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 nothing, in my mind, can equal the joy of him, who being solitary 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... 
