 | 1854 - 778 sider
...What is Truth?" — Bacon begins his "Essay of Truth" (which is dated 1625) with these words: " What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...affecting freewill in thinking, as well as in acting." There is a similar passage in Bishop Andrews's sermon Of the Resurrection, preached in 1613: "Pilate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 sider
...the hand. 1625. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRAN. ST. ALBAN. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that (Wight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well... | |
 | United Church journal - 1856 - 346 sider
...viewed through a good glass, proves to be a mere mass of unsubstantial vapours. ESSAY I. TRUTH. " What is Truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Any one of Bacon's acuteness — or of a quarter of it, might easily have perceived, had he at all... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1854 - 280 sider
...accompany him to the close of his speculations ; but that hope has sustained its disappointment. What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. What is the verb? exclaims the serious reader of the ETTEO Hrfpoevra, and cannot obtain one. WHAT IS... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 sider
...to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd15 ! 12 Prov. xxiii. 5. 11 Bacon otherwise — " What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." — Essay i. '5 O knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he ! who far from public rage Deep... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - 576 sider
...WHAT is truth? was an inquiry many ages since;* and it being that which all mankind either do, * "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." (Bacon's Essays on Truth, p. 1.) The reader, it is probable, will in this place call to mind a passage... | |
 | 1856 - 492 sider
...element necessary for the moral development and satisfaction of man's nature." THE POWER OF TRUTH. " Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remains certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 sider
...FRAGMENT OF AN ESSAY ON FAME 509 THE PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE 1 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' TTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting1 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and, though the sects of philosophers... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 sider
...The Way, the Truth, and the Life." Bacon states the matter somewhat differently from Cowper : " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." — Essay I. And wherefore ? will not God impart his light To them that ask it ? — Freely — 'tis... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 812 sider
...said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness1, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting...be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits 2 which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was 'in those 'of the ancients.... | |
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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. 
