 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...Anger. 53. Of Praise. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. ESSAYS OE COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TBUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not...for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness,1 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...BACON'S ESSAYS. . ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' TTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay W for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affectingi free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and, though the sects of philosophers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...there be that [2] 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...which are of the same veins, though there be not so [1.] What, fyc : Compare with John 18,38:" Pilate saith unto him, what is truth? And when he had said... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...Fame . . The 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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 pages
...Reputation 56 Of ludicature . 57 Of Anger 58 O/" Vicissitude of Things . Of Fame, a fragment 239 ESSAYES WHAT is Truth; said jesting Pilate; And would not...for an Answer. Certainly there be, that delight in Giddinesse; And count it a Bondage, to fix a Beleefe ; Affecting Freewill in Thinking, as well as in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pages
...Answer. Certainly there be, that delight in Giddinesse; And count it a Bondage, to fix a Beleefe ; Affecting Freewill in Thinking, as well as in Acting. And though the Sects of Philosophers of that Kinde be gone, yet there remaine certaine discoursing Wits, which are of the same veines, though there... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...which at once arrest and fix the attention. Thus, discoursing of " Truth," Bacon commences thus — " 'What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate, and would...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,...veins, though there be not so much, blood in them as there was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
