 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 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... | |
 | 1851 - 812 pages
...of the saying, ' Knowledge is power ;] " and seldom sincerely to give a true account of these gifts of reason to the benefit 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... | |
 | 1851 - 856 pages
...citera of the saying, 'Knowledge is power;'] "and seldom sincerely to give a true account of these gifts of reason to the benefit and use of men; as if there were Bought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 298 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 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...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 - 1852 - 580 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...to give a true account of their gift of reason, to th£ benefit and use of man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching... | |
 | 1852 - 978 pages
...sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit tuid contradktioQ, and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of the (lift of their reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought iu knowledge a couch... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 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 profession ; and seldom sincerely to giwi a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought... | |
 | 1852 - 632 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for onament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable than to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerelj и give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...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...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... 
