 | Candida Lacey - 1987 - 485 pages
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 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 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... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 1990 - 412 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times...their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men. . . . We who think about history need to decide from the start whether history should be written and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1994 - 160 pages
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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... 
