 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...that "the pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning far surpasseth all other in nature " ; that " Of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction...and appetite are perpetually interchangeable"; and that "By learning, man excelleth man in that wherein man excelleth beasts." SECOND BOOK. Bacon says... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...that "the pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning far surpasseth all other in nature " ; that " Of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction...and appetite are perpetually interchangeable " ; and that " By learning, man excelleth man in that wherein man excelleth beasts." SECOND BOOK. Bacon says... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...names, without giving us a knowledge of their qualities either for good or evil. — llosea Ballou. Of knowledge there is no satiety — but satisfaction and appetite are perpetually interchangeable. — Bacon. The study of literature nourishes youth, entertains old age, adorns prosperity, solaces... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...see in all other pleasures there is satiety, and after they be used their verdure departeth ; . . . But of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction...good in itself simply, without fallacy or accident. . . . But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time... | |
 | William Barton Rogers - 1896 - 466 pages
...pleasures there is satiety, but of 1 An allusion to the politics of the time, — the annexation of Texas. knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are perpetually interchangeable.' Surely of no kind of knowledge can this be more truly said than of that which unfolds to us the characters,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite areperj55tually interctafigeable ; and therefore appeareth to be good in itself simply, without fallacy or accident. Neither is that-pleasure of small efficacV and contentment to the mind of man, which the poet 20 Lucretius... | |
 | 1899 - 802 pages
...following1 passages : — (a) We Englishmen have met with the Greeks in calling him Maker. — SIDNEY. (b) Of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are perpetually interchangeable. — BACON. («) Well did the poets feign Pallas patroness of arts and arins. — FULLER. (d) With their... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 pages
...quality. And, therefore, we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction...good in itself simply, without fallacy or accident. Neither is that pleasure of small efficacy and contentment to the mind of man, which the poet Lucretius... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...quality. And therefore we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction...good in itself simply, without fallacy or accident. Neither is that pleasure of. small efficacy and contentment to the mind of man, which the poet Lucretius... | |
 | 1901 - 140 pages
...SOUTH, 1633-1716. The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning far surpasseth all other in nature. Of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are perpetually interchangeable. He who has published an injurious book, sins, as it were, in his very grave ; corrupts others while... | |
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... well they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures : and that it was the novelty which pleased, and not the quality. And therefore we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledge there is no satiety,... 
