 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 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 ; or... | |
 | 1821 - 408 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 :... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 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 :... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to en-tertain 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 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;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety aud delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and...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;... | |
 | 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...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, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 540 pages
...entertain their minds with " variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and " reputation ; and sometimes enable them to " victory of wit and contradiction...their gift of reason, to the " benefit and use of men : as if there were sought " in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a search" ing 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...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 by... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...for 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...their " gift of reason to the benefit and use of man : as if Specimens of Dr. Shaw's Variation, from Lord Bacon's arrangement and Titles. - The Essays by... | |
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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... 
