 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...faid jefting Pilate, and would not ftay for an Anfwer.1 Certainly there be that delight in Giddinefs, and count it a Bondage to fix a Belief; affecting Free-will in Thinking as well as in Adting. And though the Sedts of Philofophers of that Kind be gone, yet there remain certain difcourfing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...57. Of Anger. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. iI R 4 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TEUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not...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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pages
...FRAGMENT OF AN ESSAY ON FAME 572 THE PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE 576 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' T T7HAT 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 actiug — and, though the sects of philosophers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...Judicature. 57. Of Anger. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. DB 4 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not...for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness1, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness,1 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting...kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits2 which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the... | |
 | 1860 - 544 pages
...for some passages on "Truth." " ' What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for »n 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 that kind be gone,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pages
...451 466 469 472 612 619 523 686 641 549 658 564 570 574 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' \VTHAT 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... | |
 | 1862 - 838 pages
...Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it bondage to fix a belief affecting (aiming at) free-will in thinking as well as in acting; and though...kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing (discursive) wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
 | 1863 - 360 pages
...propositions, of which the independent is certai.sly there be [some]; and the dependant proposition is, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...affecting freewill in thinking, as well as in acting. In the independent proposition some understood is the subject, and be is the predicate. The subject... | |
 | 1863 - 836 pages
...a skirmish. There is a world of meaning in the opening sentence of Lord Bacon's essay " Of Truth." "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate; and would not...answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness," — a statement which we cordially recommend to the careful consideration of various metropolitan friends.... | |
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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... 
