 | 1849 - 604 頁
...time : " 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...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 頁
...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1849 - 580 頁
...' says that great writer, ' 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, sometimes upon. &c., .... seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of... | |
 | 1849 - 580 頁
...' says that great writer. ' 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, sometimes upon, &c., .... seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of... | |
 | 1854 - 428 頁
...he says, "The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplaeing of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes npon a natnral enriosity nnd inqaisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety... | |
 | 1849 - 610 頁
...artificial rank or pecuniary emolument. Siiys Bacon: " The greatest error is the 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 頁
...greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of learning and knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of...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... | |
 | 1851 - 588 頁
...intellectual ' "But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minus with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation ; andsometimes to enable them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 頁
...from a heart that is double and cloven, and not entire and ingenuous." If there ia not such beauty as uestion, to ask, what should be done to the man that the king would honour? nitural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight... | |
 | 1851 - 856 頁
...great * " But the greatest error of all the rest ia the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession " — [that is, for mobt of those objects which are meant by the ordinary citera of the saying, 'Knowledge... | |
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But the greatest 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, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to... 
