 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 Works - Side 107af Thomas Martin - 1835 - 367 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Harvard University - 1863 - 50 sider
...circulate the blood and renew its vitalizing power. It was the lament of Lord Bacon, that " men have 12 entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to a victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely... | |
 | Harvard University - 1863 - 40 sider
...the heart and lungs to the natural body, which circulate the blood and renew its vitalizing power. 12 entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to a victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1865 - 420 sider
...? * " 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...contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession " [that is, for most of those objects which are meant by the ordinary citers of the saying, "Knowledge... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 sider
...mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge, is the greatest error of all the rest. For, men have entered into a desire of learning and...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; — but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 492 sider
...same.... The greatest error of ail the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitivë appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornamenf... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1867 - 660 sider
...art — temporary motives and unworthy compromise often degrading the ideal and dwarfing the result: "Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to a victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 sider
...mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge, is the greatest error of all the rest : For, men have entered into a desire of learning and...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; — but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1834 - 320 sider
...— "But Ihe greatest, error of all the rest, is the mistaking or mis placing of Ihe last or farthest end of knowledge, for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a nutural curiosity, and an inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 sider
...knowledge sometimes upon1 a natural Curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their mind with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enablo them to obtain the victory of wit and contradiction, and sometimes for lucre and possession;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 sider
...answers to tho theological virtue Charity, and admits of no excess, but orror. . Essay xin. W. vi, 403. Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and 42 sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
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