 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 42 pagine
...in conclusion, I shall crave your indulgence, furnishes an appropriate close to these reflections. " Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pagine
...Thefollowing passage from his Advancement of Learning, is an example of Bacon's better style : — , " But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...knowledge, sometimes, upon a natural curiosity, and an inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pagine
...Thefollowing passage from his Advancement of Learning, is an example of Bacon's better style :— " But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge j for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes, upon, a natural curiosity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pagine
...abridger ; and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. ' But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pagine
...the account of this last mentioned "peccant humour," as a sample of his " dissection " of them all. e thorn or brier, which prick or scratch, because they can do no other. The most toler furthest end of learning and knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,... | |
 | 1843 - 600 pagine
..." But," he says, " the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or placing of the last and farthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pagine
...peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss. — THOMSON. SECTION X. LORD BACON. MEN have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 pagine
...artful mixture of sweetening and agreeable ingredients. — Anon. The End and Use of Knowledge. — Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pagine
...abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. 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... | |
 | James Bush - 1841 - 124 pagine
...religion, when they have first mistaken the right end of education; in which, as Lord Bacon observes, " the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them... | |
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But the greatest error 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, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to... 
