 | Harvard University - 1863 - 40 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 592 pages
...variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to vietory 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 searching and restless spirit;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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 - 1865 - 784 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 Theodore Tuckerman - Art - 1867 - 660 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 for...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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1834 - 320 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...true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit und use of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, where to rest a searching and restless... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 pages
...sometimes for lucre and possession; butseldomsincerely to give a true 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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - English literature - 1869 - 382 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and 42 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... | |
 | Josiah Miller - Bible - 1870 - 272 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;... | |
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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... 
