 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...11. The sun has rose and gone to bed, Just as if Partridge were not dead. 12. But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. 13. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. 14. The mechanism of clocks and watches... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...misunderstandings that have retarded the progress of really productive thought :— " But the greatest 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, sometimes upon a natural... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...misunderstandings that have retarded the progress of really productive thought:— " But the greatest 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, sometimes upon a natural... | |
 | John Earle - English language - 1890 - 552 pages
...observation of elementary principles. The next example shall be from Bacon. 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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1896 - 562 pages
...seem to consider as coming to us through channels apart from knowledge 1 " 1 "But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men hare entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitire... | |
 | James Phinney Munroe - Education - 1896 - 290 pages
...study of nature. "But the greatest error of all 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 upon a"natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight;... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1897 - 268 pages
...fixed habitation, and means and opportunity of increasing and collecting itself."1 " The greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of...curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to 1 Bacon's Works. Translation of the Dt Augnuntia Sdentianm, Bookii.; To the King. entertain their minds... | |
 | English language - 1902 - 462 pages
...express. Read the following passage from Bacon's " Advancement of Learning " : — 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... 
