 | James Bush - 1841 - 124 oldal
...religion, when they have first mistaken the right end of education; in which, as Lord Bacon observes, " 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... | |
 | 1843 - 862 oldal
...philosophy which owns Lord Bacon as its father. And this is, in a measure, true. " The greatest error of all 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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 oldal
...it manifests itself, let Lord Bacon teach. " But the greatest error," says that great writer, " 01 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... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 oldal
...disposition, and a feeling heart, Mr Burke was strongly attached to the principles of freedom. — Idem. 13. The greatest error of all the rest is, the mistaking...the last or furthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, an inquisitive... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 oldal
...he shall end in douhts; hut if he will he content to hegin with douhts, he shall end in certainties But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 oldal
...profound interpreter or comment or, to be a sharp champion or defender, to be a methodical compourider or abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh...the last or furthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a * He did not step out of his profession. desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 oldal
...fall, either, on the one side, into the vein of Velleius the Epicurean : '• Nil tarn metuens, quam ne dubitare aliqua de re videretur:" nor, on the other...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... | |
 | 1849 - 604 oldal
...this fault, when speaking of the impediments to the advancement of truth and science in his time : " But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking...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... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 oldal
...from which one of the above quotations is taken. Speaking of various errors in philosophy he says : " But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...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... | |
 | 1849 - 612 oldal
...this fault, when speaking of the impediments to the advancement of truth and science in his time : " But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking...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... | |
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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... 
