 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 lapas
...conclusion I desire to quote : — " The greatest error is the mistaking or misplacing the last or furthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 lapas
...patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 lapas
...patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 lapas
...inward bondage have.' ANNOTATIONS. No better annotation can be given than in Bacon's own words, — ' The mistaking or 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,... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1859 - 398 lapas
...very different from what you express in your Essay— and which those con* "But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity ana inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 lapas
...patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 lapas
...level of that same science, and do not ascend, as it were, the watch-tower of a higher science. placing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning und knowledge; sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1860 - 424 lapas
...seem to consider as coming to us through channels apart from knowledge ? * " 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 lapas
...Edinburgh Review, and Hallam's Literature of Europe.] % THE TRUE ENDS OF KNOWLEDGE. BUT the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometunes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 lapas
...patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. 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... | |
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But the greatest 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... 
