 | Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 lapas
...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for * MUton. ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable...their gift of reason to the benefit and use of man, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 lapas
...a natural curiosity, and an inquisitive appetite; sometimes to enter-tain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation;...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, where to rest a searching and restless spirit; or... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 lapas
...a natural curiosity, and an inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, where to rest a searching and restless spirit ;... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 lapas
...our minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable us to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of our gift of reason, for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a couch... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 lapas
...upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation;...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 - 1839 - 404 lapas
...our minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable us to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of our gift of reason, for the benefit and use of man: — as if there Virtue hath not half so much trouble... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 lapas
...sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable us to victory of wit and contradiction, aud most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of our gift of reason, for the benefit and use of man:—as if there Virtue hath not half so much trouble... | |
 | 1843 - 600 lapas
...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 to command victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 lapas
...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 to obtain the victory of wit and contradiction, and sometimes for lucre and profession ; but seldom sincerely... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 lapas
...upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation...give a true account of their gift of reason, to the beneftt and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching... | |
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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... 
