 | George Burnett - 1807 - Страниц: 528
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - Страниц: 338
...for lucre and profession ; but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use of man : — as if there were...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit : or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect : or a tower of... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - Страниц: 524
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - Страниц: 550
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...sincerely to give a true account of their gift of rea-- son, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought, in knowledge a couch, whereupon... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 400
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state,... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - Страниц: 398
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terras, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - Страниц: 402
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terras, fora wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state,... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 408
...sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight: sometimes for ornament and reputation : and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit : or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - Страниц: 642
...sometimes to en-tertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction...of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - Страниц: 554
...to entertain their minds " with variety and delight : sometimes for ornament and re" putation : and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit " and contradiction...whereupon to rest a searching and " restless spirit ; or a tarra.ss for a wandering and variable " mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower... | |
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For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them... 
