 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...misplacing the last or furthest end of learning1 and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their...and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit jand. use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest... | |
 | 1857 - 996 pages
...: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 pages
...knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest... | |
 | 1868 - 860 pages
...he says, " have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest... | |
 | 1851 - 648 pages
...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their m indi with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession"— [that is, for most of those objects which are meant by the ordinary titers of the saying, ' Knowledge... | |
 | 1953 - 1224 pages
...# * * MEN HAVE entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men. As if there were sought in knowledge a couch where-upon to rest... | |
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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... 
