 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...(a) Tennison (/.) Hawley— Tennison. of their gift of reason, for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times_for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason,... | |
 | 1829 - 592 pages
...inquisitive appetite ; sometunes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation , and sometimes to enable them to victory...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
 | Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society - 1830 - 398 pages
...appetite ; sometimes to entertain '. their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for or" nament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to „...their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men "... But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt " knowledge, if contemplation and actici... | |
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1830 - 390 pages
...appetite ; sometimes to entertain '• their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for or" nament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to „...their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men " . . . But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt " knowledge, if contemplation and :irt... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 pages
...course of sedate tranquillity, of a contented state of life, and of virtuous and generous actions. A to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 pages
...appetite ; sometimes, to entertain their minds, with variety and delight ; sometimes, for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes, to enable them to...lucre and profession ; 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with vaiiety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : asif there were sought in knowledge a couch,whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 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,...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account lowing the shadowy moonlight ; let him wander in her sylvan suburbs, or linger in her cloistered halls;... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...is ever delightful in the apprehensions of some faculty : it fears no man, nor no thing, nor is it were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect; or a tower of... | |
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For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes 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... 
