 | Medicine - 1849 - 612 pages
...this fault, when speaking of the impediments to the advancement of truth and science in his time : " 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... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...from which one of the above quotations is taken. Speaking of various errors in philosophy he says : " 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... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 824 pages
...kind of relation, (as the lawyers speak,) as if we had known them before." THE TRUE END OF LEARNING. " 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...the account of this last mentioned "peccant humour," as a sample of his " dissection" of them all. " But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of learning and knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. of Job than the felicities of Solomon. furthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...well as ease to ibe reader, redistributed, and composed into different periods, thus, perhaps : — 1. The greatest error of all the rest is, the mistaking...misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. 2. Men Appear to have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes from a natural curiosity... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. 11. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...account of this last mentioned " peccant humour," as a sample of his " dissection " of them all. " st. For if he labour too much to express them, he shall lose their grace ; which is t furthest end of learning and knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...interpreter of nature ;" and, referring to the errors that had prevailed about learning, he says, " But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing the last or furthest end of learning1 and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 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 furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
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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... 
