 | 1851 - 588 pages
...misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minus with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation ; andsometimes to enable them... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 pages
...misplacing the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to... | |
 | 1851 - 856 pages
...misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and...ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession " — [that is, for mobt... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1851 - 444 pages
...misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and...for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable PARSON, (remorsefully.) — "Are those Lord Bacon's words? I am very sorry I spoke so uncharitably... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1851 - 820 pages
...end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes apon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable PARSON, (remorsefully.) — "Are those Lord Bacon's words? I am very sorry I spoke so uncharitably... | |
 | 1851 - 792 pages
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upou в natural curiosity and inqnisitire appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with...ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for luere and profession " — [that is, for most... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...suffer in reproach. Johnson. XX. JDwtre of Seaming. MEN have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive...ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 298 pages
...misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge ; sometimes upon a natural curiosity and...ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to... | |
 | 1852 - 978 pages
...knowledge, sometimes from a natural curiosity —in inquisitive spirit, sometimes to entertain their miuds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to cnnble them to [acquire the] victory of wit and contra'Jirtwn. 3. In most cases, however, professional... | |
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But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to... 
