 | Henry Barnard - 1849 - 580 pages
...knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon. &c., .... seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift...men, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch. &c., &c., and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man 1 s estate.'... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to vietory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sineerely to... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 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 whereupon... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes npon a natnral enriosity nnd inqaisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and repntation ; and sometimes to enable them to vietory hy wit and eontradietion ; and most times for... | |
 | 1849 - 610 pages
...mistaking of the true end of KNOWLEDGE, for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes, to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession;... | |
 | Seba Smith - 1850 - 214 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... | |
 | 1850 - 824 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... | |
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...entertain their minus with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation ; andsometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession," — [that is, for most of th<*<e objects which are meant by the ordinary citers of the syyitig, l Knowledge... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their...and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to vict&ry of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...173 Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and ect. For that nothing parcel of the world is denied...inquiry and invention, he doth in another place r reputation,and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ,- and most times for lucre... | |
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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... 
