 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...and which in conclusion I desire to quote : — " The greatest error is the mistaking or misplacing the last or furthest end of knowledge ; for men have...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight,... | |
 | 1857 - 996 pages
...very sentence from which those words are quoted. Bacon is speaking of various errors in philosophy : 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... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1859 - 398 pages
...word knowledge something very different from what you express in your Essay— and which those con* "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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 pages
...and do not ascend, as it were, the watch-tower of a higher science. placing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning und knowledge; sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...contributed to the Edinburgh Review, and Hallam's Literature of Europe.] % THE TRUE ENDS OF KNOWLEDGE. 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, sometunes... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1865 - 420 pages
...describe, but which you seem to consider as coming to us through channels apart from knowledge ? * " 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 492 pages
...same.... The greatest error of ail the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire...knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitivë appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornamenf... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1834 - 320 pages
...— "But Ihe greatest, error of all the rest, is the mistaking or mis placing of Ihe last or farthest end of knowledge, for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a nutural curiosity, and an inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...improved, but seldom augmented. 11. But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking jM_misj)lacing 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... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1870 - 350 pages
...ordinarily forgotten. " But the greatest error of all" says Bacon in his Advancememt of Learning " is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest...appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with vanity and delight; sometin*es for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory... | |
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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... 
