 | James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 330 sider
...rest in Providence, unless it turn upon the poles of truth. u The inquiry of truth," says Bacon, u which is the love-making or wooing of it — the knowledge...enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God in the work of days was the light of sense; the last was the light of reason,... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 sider
...extract or two from some of his Essays. — The following are his remarks on the subject of truth. " The knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the... | |
 | 1855 - 446 sider
...coincide with each other." Says Lord Bacon, " The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence...which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of our nature."8 Religious fidelity will also enlist a man against prominent social abuses, such as intemperance... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 sider
...depraved judgements and affections, yet Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the enquiry of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it,...the presence of it, and the belief of Truth, which G is the enjoying of it, is the soverein Good of human nature." But, says Mr Trower, " is Divine Truth... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 sider
...before. But howsoever4 these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense, the last was the light... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 sider
...before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first Creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; 8 the last was the... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 sider
...before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 sider
...doctrines is in no way compromised by any position assumed in regard to Mesmerism. » " The inquiry after truth, which is the lovemaking or wooing of it; the...the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it," Lord Bacon says, " is the sovereign good of human nature." There was never a more sincere lover of... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 880 sider
...an intellectual and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon said, " truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...by the knowledge which science and education shed on every relation of his being, what a vast expansion, what a wondrous elevation is he capable of attaining... | |
 | 1857 - 654 sider
...intrigue, in which he lived, as a lawyer, a courtier, and a chancellor, when he wrote, "Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature. Certainly it is a heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn... | |
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... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. 
