 | England - 1851 - 792 pages
...That is true— we so understood it." PARSON. — " Thus, when this great ' '' But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upou в natural curiosity and inqnisitire appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety... | |
 | England - 1851 - 812 pages
...is true — we so understood it." " PARSON. — " Thus, when this great * " But the greatest error of all the 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 upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive... | |
 | Medicine - 1852 - 632 pages
...in a proper spirit, alwajs remembering that the great Lord BACON has said,— " The greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of...knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning sai knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity. a*3 inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1852 - 324 pages
...Bacon's better style : — "But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or mis placing of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; for men...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and an inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for... | |
 | Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...reader, redistributed, and composed into different periods, thus, perhaps : — 1. The greatest error of all the rest is, the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. 2. Men Appear to have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes from a natural curiosity... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. 11. 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... | |
 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1854 - 608 pages
..."The greatest error of all the rest," he said, "is the mistaking or misplacing the last or furthest end of knowledge, for men have entered into a desire...natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes, for ornament and reputation; sometimes, for victory of art and contradiction; seldom, sincerely to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...mentioned " peccant humour," as a sample of his " dissection " of them all. " But the greatest error o much to express them, he shall lose their grace ; which is t furthest end of learning and knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 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 men, as... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...inward bondage have.' ANNOTATIONS. No better annotation can be given than in Bacon's own words, — ' The mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge, is the greatest error of all the rest : For, men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,... | |
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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... 
