 ... 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.  Notes and Queries - Page 1271850Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is...belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is (he sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...works, the varieties and beauties of nature. The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence...it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying it, is the sovereign good of our nature. The unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...both, if we would be Christians in reality. CHAPTER II. The Inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the Knowledge of Truth, which is...of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature. — BACON. THE distinguished author of this motto, who devoted so much of his attention to the method... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is...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... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1841 - 216 pages
...woo'd. Truth which only doth judge itself teaches that, the enquiry of Truth, which is the lovemaking or wooing of it-— the knowledge of Truth, which...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." — .Baeow's Essay on Truth. P. 54. 1. 13. That mirror they must gradually unveil. The subjection of... | |
 | Robert Jefferson Breckinridge - 1842 - 78 pages
...saith, " which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that 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 enjoyment of it, is the sovereign good of human nature."* Truth, then, is the sole object proposed... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1844 - 250 pages
...woo'd. " Truth which only doth judge itself teaches that, the enquiry of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it — the knowledge of Truth, which...of it — is the sovereign good of human nature." — Bacon's Essay on Truth,. P. 136, line 13. That mirror they mutt gradually unveil. " The subjection... | |
 | 1844 - 612 pages
...is a part of religion itself. " The inquiry of truth," says Lord Bacon, " which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creation of God in the work of the days was the light of sense, the last was the light of... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the enquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking, or wooing of it: the knowledge of truth, which is...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...works, the varieties and beauties of nature. 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. The unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself or to call himself to account,... | |
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