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... The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of Englandpor Francis Bacon - 1834Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1829 - 592 páginas
...a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometunes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ,...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
| Plymouth athenaeum - 1830 - 390 páginas
...appetite ; sometimes to entertain '• their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for or" nament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to „...their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men " . . . But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt " knowledge, if contemplation and :irt... | |
| Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society - 1830 - 398 páginas
...appetite ; sometimes to entertain '. their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for or" nament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to „...their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men "... But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt " knowledge, if contemplation and actici... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 páginas
...course of sedate tranquillity, of a contented state of life, and of virtuous and generous actions. A to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect ; or a tower... | |
| Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 páginas
...natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes, to entertain their minds, with variety and delight ; sometimes, for ornament and reputation ;...lucre and profession ; and seldom, sincerely to give a true'account.of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 páginas
...a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with vaiiety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ;...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : asif there were sought in knowledge a couch,whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 páginas
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction,...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account lowing the shadowy moonlight ; let him wander in her sylvan suburbs, or linger in her cloistered halls;... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 páginas
...is ever delightful in the apprehensions of some faculty : it fears no man, nor no thing, nor is it were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down, with a fair prospect; or a tower of... | |
| Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 páginas
...upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ;...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of... | |
| 1835 - 538 páginas
...followed in the University, — the philosophy of Aristotle ; real knowledge beiug in his view " not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a. tower of... | |
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