 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 σελίδες
...sometimes to entertain their minds wit] variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament an< reputation ; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucr and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give true account of their gift of reason, for the benefi... | |
 | 1852 - 978 σελίδες
...knowledge, sometimes from a natural curiosity —in inquisitive spirit, sometimes to entertain their miuds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to cnnble them to [acquire the] victory of wit and contra'Jirtwn. 3. In most cases, however, professional... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 σελίδες
...error of all the rest, is the mistaking and misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to win the victory by wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession, and seldom sincerely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 σελίδες
...the 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 victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 σελίδες
...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,...profession; 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,... | |
 | 1868 - 860 σελίδες
...end of knowledge, closes by divorcing it from all selfish egotism and ambition. " Men," he says, " have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch... | |
 | 1851 - 648 σελίδες
...misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learnlng and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their m indi with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | 1953 - 1224 σελίδες
...things, through the efforts (often scantily rewarded) of these pioneers. — Sven Hildor Barton » # * * MEN HAVE entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...profession; 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 where-upon... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 σελίδες
...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,...profession; 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... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 1990 - 412 σελίδες
...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 for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to... | |
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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... 
