 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...sometimes to entertain their minds wit] variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament an< reputation ; sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucr and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give true account of their gift of reason, for the benefi... | |
 | 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 978
...knowledge, sometimes from a natural curiosity —in inquisitive spirit, sometimes to entertain their miuds with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, and sometimes to cnnble them to [acquire the] victory of wit and contra'Jirtwn. 3. In most cases, however, professional... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge ; sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their...ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to win the victory by wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession, and seldom sincerely... | |
 | William Laxton - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...appetite; sometimes, for ornament and reputation; sometimes, for victory of art and contradiction; seldom, sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men But it is that which will, indeed, dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their m indi with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament...contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession"— [that is, for most of those objects which are meant by the ordinary titers of the saying, ' Knowledge... | |
 | John Dewey - 1971 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...variety of picturesque metaphor: "Men have entered into the desire of learning and knowledge, . . . seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the bene6t and use of men, but as if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and wandering... | |
 | 1953 - عدد الصفحات: 1224
...* MEN HAVE entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...men. As if there were sought in knowledge a couch where-upon to rest a searching and restless spirit * * * and not a rich storehouse for the glory of... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 1990 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - عدد الصفحات: 372
...to enable them to the victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profersion ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their...men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind... | |
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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... 
