 | 1905 - 622 pages
...upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation,...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use of man, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching... | |
 | Bernard S. Phillips - 2001 - 272 pages
...to logic and the scientific method: Men have entered into the desire of learning and knowledge . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men, but as if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and wandering spirit; or... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable0 them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession;0 and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and... | |
 | David Read - 2005 - 190 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;... | |
 | Stephen John Campbell, Stephen L. Campbell - 2004 - 430 pages
...right) Stradano, The Alchemists. On panel. Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, studiolo of Francesco de'Medici. them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most...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 a 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... 
