...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...

...instead of rich store-houses, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate :" (a) (a) 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...

...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...

...anarchy and confusion." And, when speaking of one of the errors of learning, he " 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...

...conscious peace, and virtue pore, Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss. — THOMSON. LORD BACON. 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...

...writings afford, of the purity of his purposes. But this will be best understood from his own language. ' 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...

...writings afford, of the purity of his purposes. But this will be best understood from his own language. ' 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...

...greater degree of importance than it has yet attained. THE greatest error is the mistaking of the true end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning »nd knowledge, sometimes, upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes, to entertain,...

...improving of the one by the other * : and • ' But the greatest error of all the rest,' says Lord Bacon, ' is the mistaking, or misplacing, of the last or furthest...natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes, to entertain their minds, with variety and delight ; sometimes, for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes,...

...often makes them * * But the greatest error of all the rest/ says lord Bacon, * is the mis. taking, or misplacing, of the last or furthest end of knowledge:...natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes, to entertain their minds, with variety and delight; sometimes, for ornament and reputation; and sometimes,...