 | 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... | |
 | Ed Andrew - 1999 - 205 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 445 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Ida H. Stamhuis - 2002 - 240 pages
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 | 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... | |
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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... 
