...below: so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is M heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity,...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." That the reader may enter properly into the spirit and meaning of the letters which I am about to lay...

...In him was remarkably exemplified the beautiful observation of Lord Bacon ; " Certainly it is henven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." Those who knew him personally, unanimously agree, that it was impossible to converse with Swartz without...

...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...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." LORD nACON. "WELL, what do you think of our member?" was Miss Pratt's first salutation to Gertrude,...

...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...Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."— (Bacon.) ' CT New-York, 1836. * Lucretius. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Misery of the human family — Man...

...only the majesty, but the benignity of the Divine administration. " Certainly," as Lord Bacon says, "it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." While querulous men are, at once, indulging their bad passions, and taking credit for superior piety,...

...consoling doctrine. How strange, that while, conformably with the wise observation of Lord Bacon, " it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth '," there should be found men of ingenuity and literature, who dazzle by their talents and delude by...

...in truth is a Christian happiness. For, certainly, as the great philosopher of our country says, " It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."* The love of truth is evidenced in the lesser as well as in the graver transactions of life, — in...

...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...rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Bacon. CONTENTMENT. — It is the general misfortune not to be content with what we have; not to...

...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...rest 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,...

...philosophers, Francis Bacon, in the following energetic sentence, — " Certainly it is heaven and earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." As perspicuity should always be the marked characteristic of a report, we shall in this digested analysis,...