 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 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... | |
 | Howard Zinn - History - 1990 - 412 pages
...censure, saying, "Men sought truth in their own little worlds and not in the great and common world.". . . 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 LeRoy Long Jr. - Religion - 1992 - 250 pages
...service of the public good and expressed dismay concerning how infrequently this goal is achieved: 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... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - Psychology - 1995 - 390 pages
...are synonymous. This is made clear in a passage not yet fully divorced from the Hermetic tradition: 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 . . . seldom... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...shall end in doubts,- but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties 1 1 . 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, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 pages
...or abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge comes 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 - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...abridger; and so the patrimony0 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... | |
 | Richard Kennington - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 312 pages
...within which to consider Cartesian mastery of nature. Bacon's starting point, often reiterated, is that "the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of human knowledge."3 His positive endeavor is that "contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly... | |
 | Stephen John Campbell, Stephen L. Campbell - Art - 2004 - 430 pages
...reduction of scientific knowledge to materia for contemplation, in The Advancement of Learning (1605): But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or the furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1920 - 96 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... | |
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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... 
