 But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain...  Small Books on Great Subjects - Pagina 61846Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1850 - 824 pagine
...error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...and most times for lucre and profession : and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pagine
...rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of learning and knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to vict&ry of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
 | 1851 - 588 pagine
...all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minus with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation ; andsometimes to enable them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pagine
...heart that is double and cloven, and not entire and ingenuous." If there ia not such beauty as "men on, to ask, what should be done to the man that the king would honour? nitural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 pagine
...the rest," says he, " is the mistaking or misplacing the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men : as if there... | |
 | 1851 - 856 pagine
...all the rest ia the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession " — [that is, for mobt of those objects which are meant by the ordinary citera of the saying, 'Knowledge... | |
 | 1851 - 812 pagine
...rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: — for men пате entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession." — [that is, for most of those objects which are meant by the ordinary oilers of the saying, ' Knowledge... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1851 - 444 pagine
...of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable PARSON, (remorsefully.) — "Are those Lord Bacon's words? I am very sorry I spoke so uncharitably... | |
 | 1851 - 792 pagine
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upou в natural curiosity and inqnisitire appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with...victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for luere and profession " — [that is, for most of those objects which are meant by the ordinary citera... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1851 - 820 pagine
...end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes apon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable PARSON, (remorsefully.) — "Are those Lord Bacon's words? I am very sorry I spoke so uncharitably... | |
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