 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 sider
...Fame 225 ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting1 Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.2 Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting3 free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that... | |
 | A. Elley Finch - 1873 - 168 sider
...— Buckle, History of Civilization, vol. i. pp. 852, 853. NOTES. NOTE A, p. 1. What is Truth? ' " What is Truth ? " said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' — Bacon's Essays, ' Of Truth,' i. Archbishop Whately, in his annotated edition of Bacon's Essays,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 sider
...1597': * Coined in 1582-3, and in circulation till 1601. ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. OF TRUTH (1625). u What is truth ? " * said jesting Pilate, and would...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 sider
...Fragment of an Essay on Fame 570 The Praise of Knowledge 574 BACON'S ESSAYS, ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' TTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief—affecting 1 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting—and, though the Beets of philosophers... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 sider
...method of scientific investigation, and of a volume of Essays, from which the extracts are taken. TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not...Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it as a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free will in thinking as well as in acting. And although the... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 sider
...read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. 2. OF TRUTH. (Essay I.) What is Truth;' said jesting Pilate; and would not...and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone,... | |
 | Eliza Rhyl Davies - 1875 - 302 sider
...was almost morbid. The simpler a truth is, the harder it is to hit Moreover, and this is serious, " there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a...belief affecting free will in thinking as well as acting.* Dr. Fraser gave up his profession for no other reason than the loss of his wife, to whom he... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 sider
...that Christ * deigned no reply' to Pilate, is at least as questionable as that of Bacon (Essay i.) : 1 What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' II. 290-304. Cp. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 1234: ' Oh! knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 352 sider
...that Christ ' deigned no reply 'to Pilate, is at least as questionable as that of Bacon (Essay i.) : 'What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' II. 290-304. Cp. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 1234: ' Oh ! knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 sider
...Of the Essays, as they were then published, these are three : — ESSAYS OF BACON, 1625. Of Truth. " ore ; I will not only obey him like an old Roman,...him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible whi freewill in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone,... | |
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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. And though the sects of philosophers of... 
