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The Management of Research Institutions: A Look at Government Laboratories - Page i
by Hans Mark - 1984 - 306 pages
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Materials for thinking, extracted from the works of ancient and modern ...

1837 - 352 pages
...supplication to tht throne. — Junius. 90. Causes — Anxiety for the future disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things, because the knowledge of...men the better able to order the present to their advantage. — Hobbes. 91. Freedom of Thought being intimately connected with the happiness and dignity...
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...tell them ; and sometimes also to invent them. Anxiety for the future time, disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things : because the knowledge...able to order the present to their best advantage. Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a man from the consideration of the effect, to...
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...tell them ; and sometimes also to invent them. Anxiety for the future time, disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things : because the knowledge...able to order the present to their best advantage. Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a man from the consideration of the effect, to...
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Hobbes's Leviathan; Harrington's Ocean; Famous Pamphlets [A.D. 1644 to A.D ...

Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pages
...also to invent them. Anxiety for the future time, disposeth men to inquire into the causes of tbinip: because the knowledge of them maketh men the better...able to order the present to their best advantage. Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a man from the consideration of the effect, to...
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The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works

Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 408 pages
...tell them ; and sometimes also to invent them. Anxiety for the future time, disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things : because the knowledge...able to order the present to their best advantage. Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a man from the consideration of the effect, to...
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The Philosophy of Hobbes in Extracts and Notes Collated from His Writings

Thomas Hobbes - 1903 - 444 pages
...tell them ; and sometimes also to invent them. Anxiety for the future time, disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things: because the knowledge of...able to order the present to their best advantage. Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a man from the consideration of the effect, to...
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Utopian Papers: Being Addresses to "The Utopians"

Dorothea Hollins - 1908 - 232 pages
...complete. COMTE'S VIEW OF THE FUTURE OF SOCIETY " ANXIETT for the future time disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things : because the knowledge...able to order the present to their best advantage." In writing thus, Thomas Hobbes, the first systematic sociologist that England, or indeed the modern...
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French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes

René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - 1910 - 436 pages
...tell them, and sometimes also to invent them. Anxiety for the future time disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things; because the knowledge of...able to order the present to their best advantage. Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a man from the consideration of the effect to...
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French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes: With ...

1910 - 470 pages
...tell them, and sometimes also to invent them. Anxiety for the future time disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things; because the knowledge of...able to order the present to their best advantage. Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a man from the consideration of the effect to...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 34

1910 - 470 pages
...tell them, and sometimes also to invent them. Anxiety for the future time disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things; because the knowledge of...able to order the present to their best advantage. Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a (Y) HC xxxiv man from the consideration of the...
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