 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 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 ito rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 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...give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benef,t and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch wherenpon to rest a searching... | |
 | Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 pages
...sometimes to entertain their friends 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... | |
 | Owens College - 1874 - 866 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." And, after declaring that " this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1905 - 484 pages
...ininds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable thein to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if lhere were sought in knowledge a couch whm'upon to rest a searehing and restless spirit;... | |
 | 1906 - 762 pages
...in wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give an account of their gift of reason to the benefit and...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, or a fort and commanding ground for... | |
 | 1907 - 822 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,...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... | |
 | Stanton Coit - 1908 - 502 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1908 - 496 pages
...variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to Tictory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre...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;... | |
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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... 
