 TRUTH. 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...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 1by Francis Bacon - 1815Full view - About this book
 | John Horne Tooke - 1829 - 628 pages
...pieces for the TRUTH f, without once considering the meaning of the word. * See John \8. 38. " W hat is Truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer." — Bacon's Essays. t [" CANONICA, in philosophical history, an appellation given by Epicurus to his... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1830 - 68 pages
...ANOBL COVBT, SKISNEB SIItEET, 10MBOK. THE WORK OF THE REVEREND ROBERT TAYLOR, STYLED THE DIEGESIS. " 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 ba gone,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...Majesty. Your entire loving brother, FRAN. BACON. Frvm my Chamber at Oray>i IKS. tlutZMvf January, l&J. ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth?...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...in rural leisure pass'd l5 ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets, 14 Bacon otherwise — " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." — Essay i. 15 O knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he ! who far from puhlic rage Though... | |
 | Protestant association - 1855 - 404 pages
...Nothing inconsistent therewith can ever be for the real and lasting benefit of men or nations. " " ' What is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer," is the opening sentence of one of Lord Bacon's short, lucid, and important essays. The same question... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1840 - 806 pages
...to declare to the worlde that who soo be of TKOUTH wyll here my worde. Than 1 See John, xviii. 38. " What is Truth ? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."—Bacon's Essays. 1 fj" CANONICA, in philosophical history, an appellation given by Epicurus... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 616 pages
...copulentur." BACON — De Augmentis Scientiarum, Lib. U. cap. 4. ON THE GROUNDS AND SOURCES OF HISTORY. "CERTAINLY there be that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief.'' This trite quotation from the first of Bacon's beautiful and compendious Essays, describes a not uncommon... | |
 | 1842 - 740 pages
...Scepticism, which reminds us of a transcendantly glorious passage in one of Foster's Essays: — " ' Certainly there be that delight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief.' This trite quotation from the first of Bacon's beautiful and compendious Essays, describes a not uncommon... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1849 - 458 pages
...of sceptical criticism must be abhorred. LOBD BACON'S adage is, alas, too often verified : " Certain there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief : " for in the discursive reading which we have found necessary for illustrating CALVIN'S EZEKIEL,... | |
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