 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...inward bondage have.' ANNOTATIONS. No better annotation can be given than in Bacon's own words, — ' The mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge, is the greatest error of all the rest : For, men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,... | |
 | 1857 - 996 pages
...very sentence from which those words are quoted. Bacon is speaking of various errors in philosophy : But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...augmented. 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...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | 1868 - 860 pages
...end of knowledge, closes by divorcing it from all selfish egotism and ambition. " Men," he says, " have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | 1851 - 648 pages
...want of knowledge— rthe knowledge that moralists and preachers * " But the greatest error of nil the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last...knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learnlng and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to... | |
 | 1953 - 1224 pages
...things, through the efforts (often scantily rewarded) of these pioneers. — Sven Hildor Barton » # * * MEN HAVE entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | 348 pages
...do so. 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...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pages
...abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. 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... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 1990 - 412 pages
...censure, saying, "Men sought truth in their own little worlds and not in the great and common world.". . . 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... | |
 | Edward LeRoy Long Jr. - 1992 - 250 pages
...service of the public good and expressed dismay concerning how infrequently this goal is achieved: 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... | |
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But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to... 
