| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 lapas
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...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... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 lapas
...for lucre and profession ; but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use of man : as if there were...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit : or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect : or a tower of... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 524 lapas
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...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... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 550 lapas
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of rea-- son, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought, in knowledge a couch, whereupon... | |
| 1821 - 400 lapas
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state,... | |
| Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 lapas
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state,... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 lapas
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terras, fora wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state,... | |
| 1821 - 408 lapas
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation : and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit : or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 lapas
...sometimes to en-tertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 554 lapas
...to entertain their minds " with variety and delight : sometimes for ornament and re" putation : and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit " and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and " restless spirit ; or a tarra.ss for a wandering and variable " mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower... | |
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