 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...  Works - liii. lappuseautors: Francis Bacon - 1850Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1859 - 398 lapas
...citera of the saying^ "Knowledge is power;"] " and seldom smcerely to give a true account of these gifts 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; or a terrace for ft wandering and variable mind to walk up and down,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 lapas
...delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to win the victory by wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...use of men, [as if there were sought in knowledge, a conch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 lapas
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre...were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down... | |
 | 1921 - 614 lapas
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre...gift of reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if it were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace... | |
 | Zenas Clark Dickinson - 1922 - 328 lapas
...variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre...were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 lapas
...variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 lapas
...variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down... | |
 | 1868 - 860 lapas
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre...of 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... | |
 | 1851 - 648 lapas
...of the saying, ' Knowledge is power ;'|" and seldom sincerely to give a true account of these gifts 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 ; or a terrace for a wundering and variable mind to walk up and down... | |
 | 1953 - 1224 lapas
...variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre...were sought in knowledge a couch where-upon to rest a searching and restless spirit * * * and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the... | |
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