 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; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them...  Lectures on the British Poets - Page 79by Henry Reed - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...farthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge ; sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to win the victory by wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession, and seldom sincerely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...learning and knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes...and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession... | |
 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1854 - 608 pages
...appetite; sometimes, for ornament and reputation; sometimes, for victory of art and contradiction; seldom, sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men But it is that which will, indeed, dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...out.— Dr Whichcote. 36. Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of the gift of reason to the benefit and use of man. As if there were wrought in knowledge a couch whereupon... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...out.— Dr WMchcote. 36. Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of the gift of reason to the benefit and use of man. As if there were wrought in knowledge a couch whereupon... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 648 pages
...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their m indi with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession"— [that is, for most of those objects which are meant by the ordinary titers of the saying, ' Knowledge... | |
 | John Dewey - Philosophy - 1971 - 276 pages
...variety of picturesque metaphor: "Men have entered into the desire of learning and knowledge, . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the bene6t and use of men, but as if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and wandering... | |
 | New Thought - 1953 - 1224 pages
...Sven Hildor Barton » # * * MEN HAVE entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men. As if there were sought in knowledge a couch where-upon to rest a searching and restless... | |
 | 348 pages
...furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching or restless... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless... | |
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