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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ... - Page 39
by Francis Bacon - 1826
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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 2

Charles Knight - 1850 - 652 pages
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to vict&ry of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searchin? and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament for nothing can fill, much less extend tiucjiccoimt of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science

1851 - 588 pages
...entertain their minus with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation ; andsometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession," — [that is, for most of th<*<e objects which are meant by the ordinary citers of the syyitig, l Knowledge...
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Thoughts on Self-culture, Addressed to Women

Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 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...
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My Novel Or Varieties in English Life, Volume 1

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1851 - 820 pages
...power;'] "and seldom sincerely to give a true account of these gifts of reason to the benefit anil use of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a...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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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 812 pages
...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession." — [that is, for most of those objects which are meant by the ordinary oilers of the saying, ' Knowledge...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 792 pages
...inqnisitire 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 luere and profession " — [that is, for most of those objects which are meant by the ordinary citera...
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My Novel: Or, Varieties in English Life, Volume 1

Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1851 - 444 pages
...knowledge — the knowledge that moralists and preachers would convey. But Lord Bacon had read all that them to victory of wit and contradiction: and most times for lucre and profession"— [that is, for moat of those objects which are meant by the ordinary citers of the saying, 'Knowledge...
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The American Scholar, Volume 15

William Allison Shimer - 1946 - 572 pages
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