 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with vaiiety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : asif there were sought in knowledge a couch,whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...; " Men," he says, " have entered into a desire of knowledge sometimes from a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 pages
...for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their...men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 42 pages
..." Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their...men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 422 pages
..." 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 * Milton. ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 pages
..." 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 * MUton. ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge j for men have entered into a desire of learning and...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 state, for... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 pages
...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 pages
...for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it...: for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomo ; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
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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... 
