 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 oldal
...rougher strain. In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel. 327 But the greatest error ... 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 andinquisitive... | |
 | John Morley - 1917 - 410 oldal
...second knot that is still harder to disentangle than the first. CHAPTER VII LEADING CONTEMPORARIES 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... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 oldal
...convert their labors to aspire to certain second prizes : as to be a profound interpreter or commenter, farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | 1919 - 410 oldal
...which it is the province of learning to confer upon a generation. The greatest of errors, he contends, 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... | |
 | 1919 - 398 oldal
...which it is the province of learning to confer upon a generation. The greatest of errors, he contends, 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... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 oldal
...convert their labors to aspire to certain second prizes : as to be a profound interpreter or commenter, muscle, and blubber, with easy roll, among waves in which the stoute abridgor; and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented.... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1920 - 448 oldal
...mistaken in its method and misdirected in its end. He had said in The Advancement of Learning that " the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last and furthest end of Knowledge." Men have desired knowledge from curiosity or to entertain their minds,... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 oldal
...profound interpreter or commenter, to be a sharp champion or defender, to be a methodical cornpounder or abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh...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... | |
 | 1921 - 614 oldal
...Elsewhere, in speaking of the errors which block the progress of science. Bacon has a famous passage : 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... | |
 | John William Adamson - 1921 - 320 oldal
...book of the Advancement of Learning; Bacon is speaking of the errors which have retarded science. " 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... | |
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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... 
