 | George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...errors which he points out as impediments tp the progress of learning, he says: But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...errors which he points out as impediments to the progress of learning, he says: But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...points' out as impediments to the progress of learn-- in g, he says: But the greatest error of all th« rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natrtral curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 pages
...HOWARD . 233 BRADFORD — 252. ENQUIRY UPON PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS — 281 TURNER '-, — 291 / • \ " 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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 524 pages
...errors which he points out as impediments to the progress of learning, he says: But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...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...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | 1821 - 398 pages
...VOL. III. PART I. L And, when speaking of one of the errors of learning, he " But the greatest errour of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...PAIVT i. L And, when speaking of one of the errors of learning, he says: " But the greatest errour of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...VOL. in. PART i. L And, when speaking of erne of the errors of learning, he " But the greatest errour of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...PART I. L And, when speaking of one of the errors of learning, he says : " But the greatest errour of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of...a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight;... | |
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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 upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to... 
