 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 pages
...convert their labours to aspire to certain second prizes ; as to be a profound interpreter or commenter, to be a sharp champion or defender, to be a methodical...compounder or abridger ; and so the patrimony of knowledge comcth to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. But the greatest error of all the rest is the... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...misunderstandings that have retarded the progress of really productive thought :— " But the greatest 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, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite, sometimes... | |
 | 1888 - 576 pages
...he only killed time. 11. The sun has rose and gone to bed, Just as if Partridge were not dead. 12. But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. 13. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. 14. The... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1896 - 562 pages
...describe, but which you seem to consider as coming to us through channels apart from knowledge 1 " 1 "But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : — for men hare entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...prizes ; as to be a profound interpreter or commenter, to be a sharp champion or defender, to be a 30 methodical compounder or abridger, and so the patrimony...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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1898 - 490 pages
...— "Thus, when this great Lord Bacon erred, you may say that he erred from want of knowledge — the '"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... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 pages
...discredit on learning ; the spirit is of more worth than the letter. Finally tl1e greatest error of all ' ' 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...convert their labours to aspire to certain second prizef; as to be a profound interpreter or commenter, to be a sharp champion or defender, to be a methodical...greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplac1ng or""theTast or turthesFencT'of '1cho'wIedg'e.'"'T''or men have entered into jTHesire" 6f... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...and emptiness of many of the studies chosen, or the way of dealing with them. This came especially by He knew that only hard work could enable him to make the best use of as if there were sought in it " a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - 1902 - 460 pages
...old words will not express. Read the following passage from Bacon's " Advancement of Learning " : — But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking...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... | |
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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... 
