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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation : exhibiting the ... - Page 81
by Dugald Stewart - 1860
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Volume 4

1849 - 604 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to vietory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sineerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if there...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 16

1850 - 824 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...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to vict&ry of ohn couch, whereupon to rest a searchin? and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable...
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New Elements of Geometry

Seba Smith - 1850 - 214 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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of contemplation of second causes doth derogate from our dependence upon God, who is the first cau tiucjiccoimt of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge...
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Thoughts on Self-culture, Addressed to Women

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

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...
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Discourses on Various Subjects: Read Before Literary and Philosophical Societies

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...
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Foliorum Centuriae: Selections for Translation Into Latin and Greek Prose ...

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...
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