 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation : and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction :...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821 - 402 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ;...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit;... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ;...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 398 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ;...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...en-tertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ;...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...entertain their minds with variety aud delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ;...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ;...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 554 pages
...their minds " with variety and delight : sometimes for ornament and re" putation : and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit " and contradiction...of their gift of " reason to the benefit and use of man : as if there were sought *' in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and " restless... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...entertain their minds with vaiiety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ;...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 - 1825 - 550 pages
...ornament and reputation : and some»* times to enable them to victory of wit and contra" diction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; " and seldom...of their " gift of reason to the benefit and use of man : as if Specimen! of Dr. Shaw's Variation, from Lord Bacon's arrangement and Titles. The Essays... | |
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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... 
