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 of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain... The Retrospective Review - Página 2841821Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1849 - 580 páginas
...writer. ' of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon, &c., .... seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1849 - 580 páginas
...writer, ' of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon. &c., .... seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of... | |
| Seba Smith - 1850 - 212 páginas
...greatest error of all is the mistaking or misplacing the last or farthest end of knowledge ; — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...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... | |
| 1850 - 824 páginas
...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 of learning and knowledge,...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 - 1850 - 892 páginas
...the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of learning and knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to vict&ry of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
| 1851 - 588 páginas
...error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minus with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation ; andsometimes to enable them... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 páginas
...from a heart that is double and cloven, and not entire and ingenuous." If there ia not such beauty as uestion, to ask, what should be done to the man that the king would honour? nitural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight... | |
| Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 páginas
...all the rest," says he, " is the mistaking or misplacing the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...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... | |
| 1851 - 856 páginas
...error of all the rest ia the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession " — [that is, for mobt of those objects which are meant by the ordinary citera of the saying, 'Knowledge... | |
| 1851 - 812 páginas
...rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: — for men пате entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession." — [that is, for most of those objects which are meant by the ordinary oilers of the saying, ' Knowledge... | |
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