 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 492 pages
...universities, colleges and schools, for the receipt and comforting the same.... The greatest error of ail the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitivë appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornamenf... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1834 - 320 pages
...better style : — "But Ihe greatest, error of all the rest, is the mistaking or mis placing of Ihe last or farthest end of knowledge, for men have entered...desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a nutural curiosity, and an inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...inward bondage have.' ANNOTATION. 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,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Education, Higher - 1870 - 350 pages
...says Bacon in his Advancememt of Learning " is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge, for men have entered into a desire...appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with vanity and delight; sometin*es for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory... | |
 | Josiah Miller - Bible - 1870 - 272 pages
...book i. chap. v. He is speaking of the true purpose of knowledge. He says,' 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...to my own country after some time is passed over.'1 3 DIVERSE OBJECTS OF MEN TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE. Afen have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; somelimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them lo victory of wit and contradiction... | |
 | Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 pages
...it aside ; nor would he resume it, till he had felt the paramount excellence of the divine oracles. Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their friends with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - English language - 1873 - 154 pages
...corrupteth " (ed. Wright, p. 37). How does Bacon shew this to be the case ? 4. "The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge " (p. 42). Fully explain Bacon's meaning here. 5. In what ways is the dignity... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1874 - 556 pages
...preachers could say on such matters ; and he certainly did not err from want of * " But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitivei appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament... | |
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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... 
