 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well : ' H 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 adventuret thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...&c.' Adventures : hazards, bold performances. " Thine a the adventure, thine the victory." — Dryden. 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 - 1868 - 786 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 adventures7 thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...Epicureans) that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasured stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the...the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures (events, vicissitudes) thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 pages
...beautified the Seft, that was otherwise mferiour to the rest, saith yet excellently well: It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon...pleasure to stand in the window of a Castle, and to see a Battaile, and the Adventures thereof, below: But Ho pleasure is comparable, to the standing, upon the... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...life. So, selfishly wrote that man whom Francis Bacon quotes in his Essay on Truth : " 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... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 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...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.) - 1870 - 88 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 44 see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon... | |
 | 1871
...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... | |
 | James Henley Thornwell - 1871 - 678 pages
...themselves impregnable. We really enjoyed the fight, it being, as Lucretius observes, " a great satisfaction to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof, in the vale below." We felt all along that all that was necessary was for them... | |
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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... 
