| 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 or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...says: But the greatest error of all th« 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 natrtral curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...Among various other errors which he points out as impediments tp the progress of learning, he says: 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... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 524 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 or misplacing of the last or farthest end of ' knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
| 1851 - 786 pages
...intellectual." LEONARD. — " 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 the b • i. or farthest end of knowledge : — fur men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 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 or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
| Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...PART I. L And, when speaking of one of the errors of learning, he says : " But the greatest errour 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... | |
| 1821 - 400 pages
...VOL. in. PART i. L And, when speaking of erne of the errors of learning, he " But the greatest errour 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 Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...PAIVT i. L And, when speaking of one of the errors of learning, he says: " But the greatest errour 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... | |
| 1821 - 398 pages
...VOL. III. PART I. L And, when speaking of one of the errors of learning, he " But the greatest errour 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... | |
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