 But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain...  The Lancet - Page 2921852Full view - About this book
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...Among various other errors which he points out as impediments to the progress of learning, he says: But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...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... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldorri sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest at searching and restless spirit; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift oT 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 ; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...for lucre and profession ; and seldom' sincerely to give a true account of their gift of rea-- son, to the benefit and use of men : as if there 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 594 pages
...victory in dispute ; others for lucre and living ; few to improve the gift or reason given them from God, to the benefit and use of men. As if there were sought in knowledge, a couch, whereupon to ease a restless and searching spirit i or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sinc»ely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...abridger; and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...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 - Learning and scholarship - 1825 - 428 pages
...abridger; and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...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 - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...abridger; and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. ' j But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...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... | |
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