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... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 4411851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 páginas
...from Him. Let us make use of these two lights, and suffer neither to be put out.— Dr Whichcote. 36. minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of the gift of reason to the benefit and use of man.... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 páginas
...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...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 páginas
...misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge, is the greatest error of all the rest : For, men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; — but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...my own country after some time a passed over." 1 DIVERSE OBJECTS OF MEN TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE. Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge sometimes...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victor}' of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely... | |
| Robert Bridges - 1923 - 372 páginas
...greatest error ... 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...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1906 - 832 páginas
...themselves ... in the mistaking or misplacing of the last and furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge sometimes upon a natural curiosity and imaginative appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament... | |
| 1868 - 860 páginas
...of knowledge, closes by divorcing it from all selfish egotism and ambition. " Men," he says, " have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man... | |
| 1851 - 648 páginas
...misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learnlng and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their m indi with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
| 1953 - 1224 páginas
...through the efforts (often scantily rewarded) of these pioneers. — Sven Hildor Barton » # * * MEN HAVE entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes...contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.... | |
| 348 páginas
...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...contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men:... | |
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