 | 1878 - 228 Seiten
...Give the substance of the remarks made in the Advancement of Learning under the following heads : (1.) The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking...misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. (2.) The wisdom of conversation ought not to be over much affected, but much less despised. 27. Comment... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1878 - 544 Seiten
...that moralists and preachers could say on such matters ; and he certainly did not err from want of * " 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1070 Seiten
...mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge is the greatest error of all the rest ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity nnd inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and deliirht; sometimes for... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 720 Seiten
...and emptiness of many of the studies chosen, or the way of dealing with them. This came especially by the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge, as if there were sought in it "a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 Seiten
...end in doubts ; but, if he will be content to beginne with doubts, he shall end in certainties. . . . But the greatest Error of all the rest is the mistaking...the last or furthest end of knowledge ; for men have entred into a desire of Learning and knowledge, sometimes vpon a natural curiositie, and inquisitiue... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1880 - 416 Seiten
...discovery of ignorance, carnality, selfishness, and vanity." — Iэ a v. Thomas, DD с Dr. Thomas. "Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their mind with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Spenser Wilkinson - 1880 - 96 Seiten
...of' learning, " the greatest of all the rest, ia the mistaking or misplacing ol the lust or farthest end of knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and kno,vlec'ge Fometimes upon a natural cariosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 Seiten
...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 or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | 1881 - 504 Seiten
...still prevailed and suppressed the rest." (iv) " Qui respiciunt ad pauca de facili pronunciant." (v) " The mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge." (vi) " To call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth." 12. Write an essay on two of... | |
 | London univ, exam. papers, George Bede Cox - 1882 - 268 Seiten
...Comment upon the grammar of each of the following sentences : — 'But the greatest error,' etc. 1. ' But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge.' — BACON. If Bacon has already been speaking of some errors, so that '... | |
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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... 
