 | Daniel N. Robinson - Psychology - 1995 - 390 pages
...seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men ... for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be... | |
 | Markku Peltonen - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 406 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. (Ill, 294) Contemplation and action, knowing and intervening must be conjoined more than ever before:... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit,- or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate — But as both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man, so the end... | |
 | Lamin O. Sanneh - Religion - 1996 - 100 pages
...by the idea of a purposeful creation and our moral stewardship for it. True knowledge, he says, is a "rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." He continues, "Let no man... think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied... | |
 | Anne Glyn-Jones - History - 1996 - 662 pages
...translation from the original Latin put it; in short, where the proper end of knowledge should be to provide 'a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of Man's estate' -60 Absorbed in the Renaissance confidence in 'man's universal skill in the arts and sciences', Bacon... | |
 | Elisabeth Strauss - Psychology - 1996 - 226 pages
...ford or commanding ground. for strife and contention: or a shop. for profit. or sale: and not a rieh storehouse. for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate"48. Nicht die Inhalte des Studiums unterscheiden den virtuoso vom Wissenschaftler. sondern seine... | |
 | Karl Raimund Popper - Philosophy - 1994 - 252 pages
...my text is from p. 329 of this Appendix. 29 See The Works of Francis Baron, volume III, p. 294: '... for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate'. Cp. also Rawley's introduction 'To the Reader' to New Atlantis (published m 1627): '... a college instituted... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - Social Science - 380 pages
...wonderful tradition: workers studying by choice in the evenings, only rarely for vocational purposes but for 'the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate', paying very little if anything to do so, warmly supported by the universities, the local educational... | |
 | Christopher B. Kaiser - Science - 1997 - 480 pages
...Francis Bacon, undoubtedly the greatest proponent of this norm, all scientific work should be done 'for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate' ; it is not just a 'shop, for profit or sale'.9 Theologians and ethicists, therefore, should not be... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - Language Arts & Disciplines - 372 pages
...benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in know-ledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tarrasse, for a wandering...glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if con-templation and action may be... | |
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... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk... 
