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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. "
Nicomachean ethics books 3-10 - Página 335
por Aristotle - 1885
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The North American Miscellany and Dollar Magazine, Volúmenes3-4

1852 - 348 páginas
...wholesome ; though, like snowstorms, their drift is not always seen. It is a heaven upon earth to hare a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. A CHILD'S TOY. THE afternoon was drawing towards evening". The air was crisp and cold, and the wind...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volumen26

1852 - 608 páginas
...principles were lofty, but whose actions were mean ; who »aid, " that it was heaven upon earth to move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth," but whose duplicity, selfishness, ingratitude, and avarice, cannot, to the honor of human nature, often...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 páginas
...tempests, in the vale below:4 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,...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...was the answer. " Do you think we shall be greater fools there than here ?" HEAVEN UPON EARTH. — It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Lord Bacon. HEAVENS, TWO. — He that studies to know duty, and labors in all things to do it,...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...tempests, in the vale below :" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. acon and fond of him ; the fish died, and C'rassus...falling in contention with Domitius in the senate, To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business; it will be acknowledged,...
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Our native land, or, Scenes and sketches from British history, by the author ...

British history - 1855 - 480 páginas
...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." Another extract I will give you is on " Wisdom for a man's self ; " — that is, that kind of wisdom...
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Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley - 1925 - 290 páginas
...of dog's nose. Then may we prop our Bacon's Essays against the pewter and study those mellow words : "Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." Haec studia pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur. TIME TO LIGHT THE FURNACE THE twenty-eighth...
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The Harvard Classics, Volumen3

1909 - 378 páginas
...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...
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Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse

Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 páginas
...seriousness to the observation. The section culminates in another weighty and 'incontrovertible' sentence: Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's...rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. [VI, 378] The development so far discussed is contained within a single extended paragraph. In this...
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Ideology, Philosophy, and Politics

Frederick Charles Copleston, Conference for the Study of Political Thought - 1983 - 257 páginas
...paper. As Bacon says, so long as one contemplates the errors of others with pity rather than pride "it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move...in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." IV John Locke is a more ambiguous figure in the history of modern European thought than Bacon. The...
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