 For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them...  New Elements of Geometry - Page 73by Seba Smith - 1850 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 pages
...to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction : and most times for lucre and profession ; but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...errors of learning, he " But the greatest errour of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...of learning, he says : " But the greatest errour of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...errors of learning, he says: " But the greatest errour of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit;... | |
 | 1821 - 398 pages
...errors of learning, he " But the greatest errour of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pages
...or a love of excellence, as he has stated in a beautiful passage, which we will venture to repeat, " Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...or a love of excellence, as he has stated in a beautiful passage, which we will venture to repeat, " Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with vaiiety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation;...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : asif there were sought in knowledge a couch,whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 554 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds " with variety and delight : sometimes for ornament and re" putation : and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit " and...of their gift of " reason to the benefit and use of man : as if there were sought *' in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and " restless... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...ornament and reputation : and some»* times to enable them to victory of wit and contra" diction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; " and seldom...of their " gift of reason to the benefit and use of man : as if Specimen! of Dr. Shaw's Variation, from Lord Bacon's arrangement and Titles. The Essays... | |
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