| Richard Hoggart - 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... | |
| Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 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 state... | |
| 1905 - 622 pages
...inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enable them to victory...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use of man, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching... | |
| Bernard S. Phillips - 2001 - 272 pages
...to logic and the scientific method: Men have entered into the desire of learning and knowledge . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men, but as if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and wandering spirit; or a terrace... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable0 them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession;0 and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and... | |
| David Read - 2005 - 190 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... | |
| Stephen John Campbell, Stephen L. Campbell - 2004 - 430 pages
...right) Stradano, The Alchemists. On panel. Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, studiolo of Francesco de'Medici. them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most...knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and a restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect;... | |
| Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, Ian Hunter - 2006 - 242 pages
...primarily to do with contemplation that is removed from action and production: 'as if there were to be sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect . . . and not a... | |
| Willem B. Drees, Hubert Meisinger, Zbigniew Liana - 2006 - 182 pages
...Aristotle, Melanchthon's was the 'unmethodical' theology of the Anabaptists. 'as if there were to be sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect . . . and not a... | |
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