 | Henry Pitman - 1316 lapas
...greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing the last or furthest end of learning1 and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity...and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 lapas
...nations and to my own country after some time is passed over."3 DIVERSE OBJECTS OF MEN TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE. Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...to give a true account 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 lapas
...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,...to give a true account 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 lapas
...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,...to give a true account 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... | |
 | 1857 - 998 lapas
...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,...to give a true account 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 lapas
...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,...to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit jand. use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching... | |
 | 1868 - 796 lapas
...end of knowledge, closes by divorcing it from all selfish egotism and ambition. " Men," he says, " have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...to give a true account 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 lapas
...furthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes...to give a true account 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 lapas
...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,...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... | |
 | 1858 - 382 lapas
...error," says Bacon, " is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...to give a true account 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... | |
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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... 
