| Richard Hoggart - 372 pages
...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... | |
| Edward LeRoy Long Jr. - 1992 - 250 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes for victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men.6 Plato's confidence in... | |
| B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...inquiry.'28 Reviewing the course of learning and arts Bacon complains that men have seldom followed studies: sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...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... | |
| B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...and arts Bacon complains that men have seldom followed studies: sincerely to give a true account oí their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men:...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... | |
| B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...inquiry.'26 Reviewing the course of learning and arts Bacon complains that men have seldom followed studies: sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benef1t and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching... | |
| 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 - 390 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 - 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 - 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... | |
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