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
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...not believe that the Truth — Nature's answer — is attainable, if they will but wait to be taught. What is Truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Thus, then, the Essays contain an abridgment of Bacon's life, the essence of his manners, his morals,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...Divine 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...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... | |
| 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 - 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...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... | |
| John Baillie - 1878 - 462 pages
...or in action. ' " What is Truth ? " said jesting Pilate,' writes Lord Bacon in his Essay on Truth, ' and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there...affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting.' Our friend reckoned it no honour to be emancipated from the 'bonds' of a fixed belief, but rejoiced... | |
| Edward John Trelawny - 1878 - 260 pages
...and you would have found an empty shell. It is an easy way of getting rid of the body." TEE. : " ' What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer ." What does Bacon mean .by that ? SHELLEY: The truth is a jest; no one has found it. TEE.: That is... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - 1879 - 304 pages
...superstitions, it is nevertheless a help to faith ... ' What is truth ? ' asked Pilate. Certainly there are that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. It is not only the difficulty and labour which men have in finding out of truth that doth bring lies... | |
| Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1879 - 498 pages
...chapters of the Gospel. (Comp., eg, iii. 21; vii. 17; viii. 47; x. 16.) OT Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?— '"What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Such isLord Bacon's well-known interpretation of Pilate's well-known question. Others have seen in... | |
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