 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...  Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Work ... - Side 116af Thomas Martin - 1835 - 367 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 534 sider
...misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning or knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and...appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with vanity and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, sometimes to enable them to victory of wit... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 536 sider
...And, f1nally, there is the greatest error of all, "the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning or knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1908 - 496 sider
...end of knowledge : for men havo entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon » natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to Tictory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to... | |
 | Tadasu Misawa - 1909 - 346 sider
...the human race." Indeed, " men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge sometimes from a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession" (2: p. 42). This abuse of learning was the greatest evil of the mediaeval and Renaissance scholarship.... | |
 | George O'Neill - 1909 - 40 sider
...the scope that men propound to themselves ... in the mistaking or misplacing of the last and furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire...and knowledge sometimes upon a natural curiosity and imaginative appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 302 sider
...function. "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...and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity or inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 300 sider
...truth of revelation is also the truth of reason.. ''Philosophy was thus enlisted in the service of For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity or inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1915 - 266 sider
...last or farthest end of knowledge : for I men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, j sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive...'.sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to 1 Cic. De Nat. Dear. I. viii. 18. 1 His ElpAve1a. See Plato, Apol. (p. 21), for the best instance of... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 sider
...bracing gospel. 327 But the greatest error ... is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire...and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity andinquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1920 - 476 sider
...itself."1 " 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...entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes foi ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and... | |
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