 | James Comper Gray - 1880 - 416 pages
...discovery of ignorance, carnality, selfishness, and vanity." — Iэ a v. Thomas, DD с Dr. Thomas. "Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their mind with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Spenser Wilkinson - 1880 - 96 pages
...advancement of' learning, " the greatest of all the rest, ia the mistaking or misplacing ol the lust or farthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and kno,vlec'ge Fometimes upon a natural cariosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...he will be content to beginne 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 entred into a desire of Learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...not excited from a sufficient number of instances, and those well collated. LORD BACON : Nat. Hist. n cȓO is the greatest error of all the rest : Fur men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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...upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometime3 to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation... | |
 | London univ, exam. papers, George Bede Cox - English language - 1882 - 268 pages
...of each of the following sentences : — 'But the greatest error,' etc. 1. ' But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge.' — BACON. If Bacon has already been speaking of some errors, so that ' of the errors ' could be understood... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - English literature - 1882 - 254 pages
...Augmentis " to show his idea of the useful. " Men have entered into a desire of knowledge, sometimes as a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety ; and sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely... | |
 | Archaeology - 1885 - 582 pages
...our aims. " The greatest error," says Bacon, " is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire...and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity or inquisitive appetite, — sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight, — sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 436 pages
...patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented, 1 1. (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 - 1885 - 1108 pages
...fixed habitation, and means and opportunity of mcreasiuj and collecting itself. ' ' 'The greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last at farthest 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... 
