 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 upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 52by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...Among various other errors which he points out as impediments to the progress of learning, he says: 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, sometimes... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...Among various other errors which he points out as impediments to the progress of learning, he says: 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, sometimes... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...says: But the greatest error of all th« 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, sometimes upon a natiiral curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight;... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...BENTHAM -. 216 HOWARD . 233 BRADFORD — 252. ENQUIRY UPON PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS — 281 " Men have'entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes...natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite : sometimes to entertain their mind* with variety and delight : sometimes for ornament and reputation : and sometimes... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...Among various other errors which he points out as impediments to the progress of learning, he says: 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, sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...abridger ; and so the 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 farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821 - 402 pages
...PAIVT i. L And, when speaking of one of the errors of learning, he says: " But the greatest errour 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, sometimes... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...or a love of excellence, as he has stated in a beautiful passage, which we will venture to repeat, " Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite : sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation : and sometimes... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...confusion." And, when speaking of one of the errors of learning, he says: " But the greatest errour 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, sometimes... | |
 | 1822 - 408 pages
...or a love of excellence, as he has stated in a beautiful passage, which we will venture to repeat, " Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite : sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation : and sometimes... | |
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