 | Literature - 1850 - 824 pages
...sometimes to 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 men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to vict&ry of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre...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 searchin? and restless spirit... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 pages
...sometimes to 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 men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...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... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Calendar reform - 1852 - 298 pages
...sometimes to 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 men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and berius in his beginnings, that would reign, but would not acknowledge so much ; mason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to win the victory by wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...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,... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction;...profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of the gift of reason to the benefit and use of man. As if there were wrought in knowledge a couch whereupon... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction;...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of the gift of reason to the benefit and use of man. As if there were wrought in knowledge a couch whereupon... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victor}' of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre...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 state... | |
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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... 
