 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...conclusion I desire to quote : — " The greatest error is the mistaking or misplacing the last or furthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - Philosophy - 1857 - 856 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 desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 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 desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 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,... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1859 - 398 pages
...very different from what you express in your Essay— and which those con* "But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity ana inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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 desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 pages
...level of that same science, and do not ascend, as it were, the watch-tower of a higher science. placing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning und knowledge; sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1860 - 424 pages
...seem to consider as coming to us through channels apart from knowledge ? * " 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...Edinburgh Review, and Hallam's Literature of Europe.] % THE TRUE ENDS OF KNOWLEDGE. BUT the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometunes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 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 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 farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge... 
