 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to giv» a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 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,...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and nse of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 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 conch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...for lucre and possession ; but seldom sincerely to give a trae account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use of man, as if there were sought...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most limes for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 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;... | |
 | Harvard University - Education, Higher - 1863 - 50 pages
...with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to a victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times...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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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... 
