 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...  New Elements of Geometry - Page 73by Seba Smith - 1850 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enahle them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most...give a true account of their gift of reason, to the henefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 724 pages
...are the same, and knowledge is the inMrumenl of their removal. No less than men, are women bound " to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of mankind." There has always been a strong inclination to make women proficients, not in the sciences,... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 694 pages
...are the same, and knowledge is the instrument of their removal. No less than men, are women bound " to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of mankind." There has always been a strong inclination to make women proficients, not in the sciences,... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...enable them to obtain the victory of witand contradiction, and sometimes for lucre and profession ; but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use SELECT PASSAGES of man, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...Bacon thus enumerates the motives which urge different men to the common pursuit of knowledge : — . " Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit,... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...: " But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire...benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowiedge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrasse for a wandering... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation,and e saith, " The spirit of man is as the lamp of God,...searcheth the inwardness of all secrets." If then such man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit,-... | |
 | 1851 - 856 pages
...citera of the saying, 'Knowledge is power;'] "and seldom sincerely to give a true account of these gifts of reason to the benefit and use of men; as if there were Bought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...and then whatever he enjoyed in praise, he must suffer in reproach. Johnson. XX. JDwtre of Seaming. MEN have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of man. As if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...labours of others instead of inventing 1 74 1 1 . The mistaking the furthest end of knowledge.4 1 73 Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...to give a true account of their gift of reason, to th£ benefit and use of man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching... | |
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