 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...  The Saturday Magazine ... - Σελίδα 81842Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1865 - 420 σελίδες
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with...and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 σελίδες
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with...and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 492 σελίδες
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitivë appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornamenf and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1867 - 660 σελίδες
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with...and delight; sometimes, for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to a victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 σελίδες
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with...and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1869 - 384 σελίδες
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with...and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
 | 1905 - 958 σελίδες
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with...and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
 | 1906 - 762 σελίδες
...the most forcible language. " Men," he says, " have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to obtain victory in wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession ;... | |
 | 1907 - 822 σελίδες
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes 'to entertain their minds with...and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession,... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - 1907 - 524 σελίδες
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with...and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
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