WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting: and, though the sects of philosophers of... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Side 1af Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 sider
...faidjefting Pilate, and would not rtay for an anfwer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddinefs, and count it a Bondage to fix a Belief •, affecting...thinking, as well as in acting. And though the Sects of Philofophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain difcourfing Wits, which are of the fame... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 586 sider
...to hear, there gtill remains one speculative Infidel among us*. " « What is Truth ? said scoffing Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly, there be, that delight in giddiness, and who count it a bondage to fix a Belief; affecting Free-wiil in thinking, as well as in acting : and... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 588 sider
...there still remains one speculative Infidel among us *. * « What is Truth ? said scoffing Pilate j and would not stay for an answer. Certainly, there be, that delight in giddiness, and who count it a bondage to fix a Beliefj affecting Free-will in thinking, as well as in acting : and... | |
| John Horne Tooke - 1807 - 504 sider
...borne, and for to declare " to the worlde that who soo be of TROUTH wyll ( a ) See John xviii. 38. " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate; " and would not stay for an answer." Bacon's Essays. ( b ) Nichodemus was the patron apostle of our ancestors the Anglo-Saxons and their... | |
| Manual - 1809 - 288 sider
...Bacon.) " WHAT is Truth," said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for answer. Certainly there are many that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...gone ; yet there remain certain discoursing wits, who are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.... | |
| 1814 - 138 sider
...speculative Philosophers of the 16th century, apply to those of the present day : " Certainly," says he, " there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free will in thinking as well as in acting j and though the sect of philosophers of that kind be gone,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 sider
...the hand. t Your Grace's rnoft obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS ST. ALB AN. ESSAYS. I. OF TROTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not...and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free will in thinking, as well as in acting: and though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone,... | |
| 1821 - 416 sider
...hand. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS ST. ALBAN. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is trnth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer....and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free will in thinking, as well as in acting : and though the sects of philosophers of that kind be... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 616 sider
...into action : " the King can do no wrong " ; therefore men shall call right all that he does.'* ' " What is truth ? " said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' What has truth to do with it ? was the thought, expressed or not, of the men who cowered before Henry... | |
| James Browne, John Macculloch - 1825 - 316 sider
...Walter Scott, (credat Gualterus !) that " he would fain IMAGINE he had only one object — TRUTH." " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." We put the same question to the Doctor, and " pause for a reply." Is misrepresentation truth ? Is slander... | |
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