 For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them...  The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of Englandvon Francis Bacon - 1834Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1849 - 610 Seiten
...sometimes, to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men:... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, William W. Campbell - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...the eye could hardly distinguish from the surrounding gloom. All such proceedings would indicate " as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest an uneasy spirit; or for a terrace for a wandering mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or... | |
 | 1849 - 604 Seiten
...upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for 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... | |
 | Seba Smith - 1850 - 214 Seiten
...a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ;...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of... | |
 | 1850 - 824 Seiten
...a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 Seiten
...with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to vict&ry of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searchin? and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down... | |
 | 1851 - 588 Seiten
...entertain their minus with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation ; andsometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession," — [that is, for most of th<*<e objects which are meant by the ordinary citers of the syyitig, l Knowledge... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 Seiten
...a nitural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and !O7 : : : 7*< & 9 9D'E'8:9:73 7)3 :_# %vit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 Seiten
...a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ;...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind, to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
 | 1851 - 812 Seiten
...of the saying, ' Knowledge is power ;] " and seldom sincerely to give a true account of these gifts of reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if there...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
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