 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...Praise of Knowledge PAOB 549 558 564 570 574 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' 'YTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay ' * for an...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...special receipt (remedy). 2. OF TKUTH.1 (FBOM THE SAME WOBK.) " WHAT is truth ? " said jesting Pilate ;2 and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there...and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting (pretending to) freewill in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...and fix the attention. Thus, discoursing of " Truth," Bacon commences thus — " 'What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer....giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief." And a modern critic would fancy he was clever in catching up the author, and telling him that Pilate... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1873 - 418 pages
...Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking,...philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much, blood in them as there... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...1582-3, and in circulation till 1601. ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. OF TRUTH (1625). u What is truth ? " * said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer....philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...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 * * for an...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... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...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 stay for an answer....philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...they were then published, these are three : — ESSAYS OF BACON, 1625. Of Truth. " What is truth ? " nly obey him like an old Roman, as my dictator, but,...presume that obedience can never be expected when discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...Of Negotiating . . 62* Things 99* V 48 Of Followers and Friends . 65* ESSAYS ESSAYS WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer....sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there 5 remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins ; though there be not so much blood in... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...FRANCIS BACON. ESSAYS/ OF TRUTH. "WHAT is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.1 Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing2 wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
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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... 
