 | Richard Hoggart - 372 pages
...to enable them to the victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profersion ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account 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;... | |
 | Edward LeRoy Long Jr. - 1992 - 250 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes for victory of wit and contradiction; 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.6 Plato's confidence in... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...inquiry.'28 Reviewing the course of learning and arts Bacon complains that men have seldom followed studies: sincerely to give a true account 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... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...inquiry.'26 Reviewing the course of learning and arts Bacon complains that men have seldom followed studies: sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benef1t and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching... | |
 | Marie Boas Hall - 1994 - 408 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.3 The " benefit and use of men " meant to Bacon many things : power, because it was synonymous... | |
 | Ann Bermingham, John Brewer - 1995 - 668 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction;...of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men. . . . How bei t, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - 1995 - 390 pages
...last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men ... for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 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,-... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - 372 pages
...upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appe-tite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to the victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profersion; and seldom sincerely... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 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... 
