 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
 | John Dewey - 1920 - 244 pages
...variety of picturesque metaphor : " Men have entered into the desire of learning and knowledge, . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men, but as if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and wandering spirit ; or a... | |
 | John Dewey - 1920 - 242 pages
...variety of picturesque metaphor : " Men have entered into the desire of learning and knowledge, . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men, but as if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and wandering spirit ; or a... | |
 | 1921 - 614 pages
...passage : 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...gift of reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if it were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1921 - 332 pages
...enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit of man; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to repose a searching and a restless... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1923 - 372 pages
...bracing gospel. 327 But the greatest error ... is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire...reason, to the benefit and use of men : As if there were The nets of Wrong & Right sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1906 - 832 pages
...enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession, and seldom to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of man, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit ;... | |
 | Albert Edwin Avey - 1927 - 420 pages
...learning and knowledge upon a natural curiosity and inquisitiveness. (d) Men have seldom entered upon it sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit of man. 3. State similar propositions inconsistent with the foregoing. 4. Given the following as true,... | |
 | 1868 - 860 pages
...end of knowledge, closes by divorcing it from all selfish egotism and ambition. " Men," he says, " 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... | |
 | John Dewey - 1971 - 276 pages
...variety of picturesque metaphor: "Men have entered into the desire of learning and knowledge, . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the bene6t and use of men, but as if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and wandering... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 1990 - 412 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times...their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men. . . . We who think about history need to decide from the start whether history should be written and... | |
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