 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction,...of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and a restless spirit,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...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... | |
 | 1868 - 796 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...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... | |
 | 1857 - 996 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction,...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction;...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction;...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction;...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 rest a searching and... | |
 | 1858 - 382 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...on the labours of others instead of inventing 174 11. The mistaking the furthest end of knowledge.* 173 Men have entered into a desire of learning and...variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ,• or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon,- or a fort or commanding ground, fur... | |
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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... 
