 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...mentioned "peccant humour," as a sample of his " dissection" of them all. " But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of learning and knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1851 - 444 pages
...storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate."* • * "But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight;... | |
 | 1851 - 792 pages
...That is true— we so understood it." PARSON. — " Thus, when this great ' '' But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upou в natural curiosity and inqnisitire appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1851 - 820 pages
...storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate."* * "Kut the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes apon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety... | |
 | 1851 - 856 pages
...so understood it." PARSOX. — " Thus, when this great * " But the greatest error of all the rest ia the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 pages
...intended to confer. "The greaiest error of all the rest," says he, " is the mistaking or misplacing the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | 1851 - 812 pages
...is true — we so understood it." " PARSON. — " Thus, when this great * " But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: — for men пате entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive... | |
 | 1852 - 632 pages
...in a proper spirit, alwajs remembering that the great Lord BACON has said,— " The greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of...knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning sai knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity. a*3 inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 328 pages
...insisted upon by Lord Bacon, in his own peculiar manner. " The greatest error of all the rest," says he, " is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest...desire of learning and knowledge ; sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1852 - 324 pages
...Bacon's better style : — "But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or mis placing of the last or farthest end of knowledge ; for men...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and an inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
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But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to... 
