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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... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 441
1851
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 4

1849 - 612 pages
...furthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men...
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The American Whig Review

1849 - 1428 pages
...furthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession: and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Volume 4

1849 - 604 pages
...furthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to vietory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sineerely to...
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The Prisoners' Friend: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Criminal ..., Volume 1

1849 - 610 pages
...mistaking of the true end of KNOWLEDGE, for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes, to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession;...
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volume 10

1854 - 428 pages
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes npon a natnral enriosity nnd inqaisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and repntation ; and sometimes to enable them to vietory hy wit and eontradietion ; and most times for...
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Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding

Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...our minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable us to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession, and seldom sincerely to give a true account of our gift of reason for the benefit and use of man ;...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 16

1850 - 824 pages
...furthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession : and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
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New Elements of Geometry

Seba Smith - 1850 - 214 pages
...end of knowledge ; — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science, Volume 3

1851 - 588 pages
...entertain their minus with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation ; andsometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction;...for lucre and profession," — [that is, for most of th<*<e objects which are meant by the ordinary citers of the syyitig, l Knowledge is power ;'] " and...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...learning and knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes...and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to vict&ry of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
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