 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...  Conversations at Cambridge - Page 149by Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 292 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1830 - 390 pages
...appetite ; sometimes to entertain '• their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for or" nament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to „...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men " . . . But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt " knowledge, if contemplation and... | |
 | Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society - 1830 - 398 pages
...appetite ; sometimes to entertain '. their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for or" nament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to „...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men "... But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt " knowledge, if contemplation and actici... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 pages
...course of sedate tranquillity, of a contented state of life, and of virtuous and generous actions. A 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... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 pages
...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes, to entertain their minds, with variety and delight ; sometimes, for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes, to enable...lucre and profession ; and seldom, sincerely to give a true'account.of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with vaiiety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable...their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of man : asif there were sought in knowledge a couch,whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable...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, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction,...profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account lowing the shadowy moonlight ; let him wander in her sylvan suburbs, or linger in her cloistered halls;... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 pages
...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable...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... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 42 pages
...and inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to enable them...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 - 1837 - 334 pages
...an inquisitive appetite; sometimes to enter-tain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, where to rest a searching and restless spirit; or... | |
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