| James Bush - 1841 - 124 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 vietory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to... | |
| J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 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... | |
| 1842 - 1008 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; and most times, for lucre and profession; but seldom, sincerely to give a true account of their gift of rttooo, to the benefit and use of men:... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 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... | |
| 1843 - 450 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 ; and most times, for lucre and profession ; but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men... | |
| Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 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 ; and most times for lucre and profession ; but seldom, sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men... | |
| 1844 - 276 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 triumph in wit and contradiction ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift oj reason... | |
| Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...upon a natural curiosity, an inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of the gift of their reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch... | |
| Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1845 - 144 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 - 730 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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