 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terras, for a wandering and variable... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...vaiiety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account lowing the shadowy moonlight ; let him wander in her sylvan suburbs, or linger in her cloistered halls;... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and...use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 42 pages
...variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and...use of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 pages
...delight; sometimes for * MUton. ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre 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 spirit,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, where to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, tor a wandering and variable mind... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and...use of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, where to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable us to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of our gift of reason, for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a couch... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable... | |
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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... 
