 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...  Histoire de la littérature anglaise - الصفحة 405بواسطة Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 2409عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Seba Smith - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...profit to the reader : " The greatest error of all is the mistaking or misplacing the last or farthest end of knowledge ; — for men have entered into a...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 892
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 856
...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...ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession " — [that is, for mobt... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 496
..."The greaiest error of all the rest," says he, " is the mistaking or misplacing the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...• * "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...for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable PARSON, (remorsefully.) — "Are those Lord Bacon's words? I am very sorry I spoke so uncharitably... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 812
...rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: — for men пате entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession." — [that is, for most... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 820
...estate."* * "Kut 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 apon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 792
...' '' 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 upou в natural curiosity and inqnisitire appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety... | |
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