 | Thomas Griffiths - 1846 - 462 pages
...must be considered as the founder of " Inductive Philosophy," real knowledge being in his view "not 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 state... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 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 tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1847 - 580 pages
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 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 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 man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit,... | |
 | 1847 - 566 pages
...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...were sought in knowledge, a couch whereupon to rest a search' ing and restless spirit ; or a terras for a wandering and variab'e ' mind to walk up and down... | |
 | 1847 - 434 pages
...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory...for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to givs a true account of their gift of reason for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pages
...of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; and specifying particular forms of that error, says — " 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... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 396 pages
...of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; and specifying particular forms of that error, says— " 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... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1849 - 348 pages
...fellow-creature, I would shut him alone in a dark room without employment. ENOWLEDGE. Knowledge is not 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 state... | |
 | 1849
...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... | |
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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... 
