 | Frederic Henry Hedge - Lectures and lecturing - 1836 - 42 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and...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... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - Authors, English - 1836 - 322 pages
...their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for * MUton. 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,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Authors, English - 1836 - 312 pages
...and seldom sincerely to give a true account 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, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...enter-tain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and...men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, where to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ;...men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, where to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, tor a wandering and variable mind to... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...our minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable us to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of our gift of reason, for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were sought in knowledge a couch... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ;...reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there Vfere sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1843 - 600 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to command victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times...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,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...our minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable us to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of our gift of reason, for the benefit and use of man: — as if there Virtue hath not half so much trouble... | |
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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... 
