 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...Vicissitudes of \ 47 Of Negotiating . . 62* Things 99* V 48 Of Followers and Friends . 65* ESSAYS ESSAYS WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...Majesty, and next of your majesty, to whom on earth I am most bounden. ESSAYS CIVIL AND MORAL. L OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sect of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certaindiscoursingwits, which are of the... | |
 | Rev. G. W. Grogan - 1877 - 340 pages
...waves and eddies of the "alternate Fight."1 " Certainly," says the profound Bacon, " there be some that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing" (discursive) " wits which are of the same vein, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
 | George Finlay - 1877 - 548 pages
...without studying the writings of Dr. Robinson or Dr. Tobler, it is enough to observe, with Bacon, — 'Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting*.' Plus negare potest asinus, quam probare philosophus. On the other hand, the identity of the present... | |
 | George Finlay - 1877 - 550 pages
...without studying the writings of Dr. Robinson or Dr. Tobler, it is enough to observe, with Bacon, — 'Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting3.' Plus negare potest asinus, quam probare philosophus. On the other hand, the identity of the... | |
 | George Finlay - 1877 - 546 pages
...without studying the writings of Dr. Robinson or Dr. Tobler, it is enough to observe, with Bacon, — 'Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in_ acting3.' Plus negare potest asinus, quam probare philosophus. On the other hand, the identity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 pages
...Judicature. 57. Of Anger. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TROTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not...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 acting. And... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 pages
...* Coined in 1582-Я, and in circulation till IfiOl. K88AY8, CIVIL AND MOBAL. or TROTH (1(125). 1 ' What is truth ?" * said jesting Pilate, and would...in acting. And though the sects of philosophers- of tliat kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which arc of the same veins, though there... | |
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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... 
