 | Marie Boas Hall - 1994 - 408 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 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;...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 applying... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - 1995 - 392 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, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham, Allison Sneider - 1996 - 578 pages
...inquisitive appetite,- sometimes 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... | |
 | Markku Peltonen, Peltonen Markku - 1996 - 406 pages
...primacy in discussions. Too rarely are they disposed to use the gift of reason for the good of all men 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 - 1996 - 872 pages
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 | John Gross - 1998 - 1064 pages
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 | Richard Hoggart - 1971 - 372 pages
...sometimes 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...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 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... 
