 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
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...and do not ascend, as it were, the watch-tower of a higher science. placing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire...natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...abridger ; and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. Bat 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... | |
 | Spenser Wilkinson - 1880 - 96 pages
...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... | |
 | New Thought - 1953 - 1224 pages
...things, through the efforts (often scantily rewarded) of these pioneers. — Sven Hildor Barton » # * * 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... | |
 | 348 pages
...be offering with the other, indicating both why men do prefer misuses and why they should not do so. But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking...natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 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...natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes... | |
 | Edward LeRoy Long Jr. - Religion - 1992 - 250 pages
...service of the public good and expressed dismay concerning how infrequently this goal is achieved: The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight;... | |
 | Marie Boas Hall - Science - 1994 - 408 pages
...vigilance. The worst of all defects was that men generally have sought knowledge for the wrong reasons : 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... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - Psychology - 1995 - 390 pages
...are synonymous. This is made clear in a passage not yet fully divorced from the Hermetic tradition: But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking...have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men... | |
 | Ann Bermingham, John Brewer - 1995 - 668 pages
...a similar passage in Bacon's Adeanrement of foaming, published about twenty years earlier in 1605: For men have entered into a desire of learning and...natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; sometimes... | |
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