 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enahle them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most...give a true account of their gift of reason, to the henefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation...and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men; as if there were sought... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation;...to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; aud most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 694 pages
...are the same, and knowledge is the instrument of their removal. No less than men, are women bound " to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of mankind." There has always been a strong inclination to make women proficients, not in the sciences,... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 724 pages
...are the same, and knowledge is the inMrumenl of their removal. No less than men, are women bound " to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of mankind." There has always been a strong inclination to make women proficients, not in the sciences,... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...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 to obtain the victory of witand contradiction, and sometimes for lucre and profession ; but seldom sincerely... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation...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, —... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation...of their gift 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... | |
 | 1847 - 434 pages
...upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation...for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to givs a true account of their gift of reason for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate... | |
 | 1849 - 612 pages
...upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation...of their gift 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... | |
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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... 
