 | Ireland - 1843 - 450 pages
...within a few miles of Galway. ' TRUE END OP KNOWLEDGE The greatest error is the mistaking of the true end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and know, ledge, sometimes, to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes, for ornament... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...SEVERAL HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS. EDITED BY ROBERT SEARS. " The greatest error ia the mistaking of the true end of KNOWLEDGE, for men have entered into a desire of LEARNING and KNOWLEDGE, sometimes, to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes,... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...heart, Mr Burke was strongly attached to the principles of freedom. — Idem. 13. 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. 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 * He did not step out of his profession. desire... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...labours of others' V > instead of inventing 174 ( ll.JThe mistaking the furthest end of knowledge.4 173 Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes fur ornament and reputation,and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ,- and... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pages
...was distinguished ? •Httftf. Bacon. 9. Bacon after stating that the greatest error of learned men is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; and specifying particular forms of that error, says — " As if there were sought in knowledge a... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...that each was distinguished ? Bacon. 9. Bacon after stating that the greatest error of learned men is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; and specifying particular forms of that error, says— " As if there were sought in knowledge a couch... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1849 - 580 pages
...ways it manifests itself, let Lord Bacon teach. ' But the greatest error, ' says that great writer, ' of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of...desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon. &c., .... seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of... | |
 | 1849 - 580 pages
...ways it manifests itself let Lord Bacon teach. ' But the greatest error, ' says that great writer. ' of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of...desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon, &c., .... seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of... | |
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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... 
