 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...  The Retrospective Review - Page 2841821Full view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...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 for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enahle them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - Periodicals - 1846 - 724 pages
...are the same, and knowledge is the inMrumenl of their removal. No less than men, are women bound " to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of mankind." There has always been a strong inclination to make women proficients, not in the sciences,... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - Periodicals - 1846 - 694 pages
...are the same, and knowledge is the instrument of their removal. No less than men, are women bound " to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of mankind." There has always been a strong inclination to make women proficients, not in the sciences,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...or furthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a * He did not step out of his profession. desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a...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 spirit... | |
 | American literature - 1847 - 434 pages
...rest," says Lord Bacon, " is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to givs a true account of their gift of reason for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 566 pages
...error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplac' ing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : For men have ' entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...contradiction ; and most times for lucre ' and profession ; — but seldom sincerely to give a true account of * their gift of reason to the benefit and use... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...labours of others' V > instead of inventing 174 ( ll.JThe mistaking the furthest end of knowledge.4 173 Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes fur ornament and reputation,and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ,- and... | |
 | Medicine - 1849 - 612 pages
...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,...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 spirit... | |
 | 1849 - 736 pages
...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,...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 spirit... | |
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