 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - Philosophy - 1857 - 856 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1860 - 424 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 furthest end of knowledge : — for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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... | |
 | Josiah Miller - Bible - 1870 - 272 pages
...Advancement of Learning,' book i. chap. v. He is speaking of the true purpose of knowledge. 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... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - English language - 1873 - 146 pages
...and time leeseth and corrupteth " (ed. Wright, p. 37). How does Bacon shew this to be the case ? 4. " The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge" (p. 42). Fully explain Bacon's meaning here. 5. In what ways is the dignity... | |
 | Owens College - Evolution (Biology) - 1874 - 588 pages
...He declares that, among the errors which tend to corrupt the advancement of learning, "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 and knowledge sometimes upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...or 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... 
