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... Blackwood's Magazine - Página 4411851Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Henry Pitman - 1316 páginas
...is the mistaking or misplacing the last or furthest end of learning1 and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes...and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 páginas
...furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; 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 - 1857 - 854 páginas
...furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; 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 jand. use of... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 páginas
...error of all the rest : For, men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; 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 - 1848 - 786 páginas
...OBJECTS OF MEN TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE. Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; 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.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 páginas
...furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; 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:... | |
| Robert Bridges - 1923 - 372 páginas
...furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; 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
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge sometimes upon a natural curiosity and imaginative appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with...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... | |
| George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 páginas
...furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; 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;... | |
| 1868 - 860 páginas
...and ambition. " Men," he says, " have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; 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... | |
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