 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 oldal
...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament...profession ; and seldom sincerely 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,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 970 oldal
...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldonl sincerely to give a true account of their gift oT reason, to the benefit and use of men : as... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 oldal
...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite : sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight : sometimes for ornament...contradiction : and most times for lucre and profession ; but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use of man... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 550 oldal
...knowledge, sometimes upon a naturalcuriosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament...; and seldom' sincerely to give a true account of their gift of rea-- son, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought, in knowledge a couch,... | |
 | 1851 - 786 oldal
...knowledge, sometimes upou a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession " — [that is, for most of those objects which are meant by the ordinary citers of the saying, ' Knowledge... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 oldal
...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament...and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sinc»ely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1820 - 200 oldal
...entertain bur 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... | |
 | 1821 - 408 oldal
...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite : sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament...profession : and seldom sincerely 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... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 oldal
...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite : sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament...profession : and seldom sincerely 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... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 oldal
...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament...profession ; and seldom sincerely 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,... | |
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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 of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain... 
