 | Henry Woodhead - 1863 - 328 pages
...* Lettres de Descartes, Tome 1., p. 10. f ' Truth, which doth only judge itself, teacheth that tlie inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing...enjoying of it : is the sovereign good of human nature.' — Bacon's Essay on Truth. 284 MORAL MEDITATIONS. them : for three things chiefly disturb our peace... | |
 | 1912 - 502 pages
...cannot therefore be conveniently compared with the other materials. DCIDS ana Dotes. " Truth, which doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of truth,...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. — BACON. THE subjects for discussion at the Stomatology Section of the International Congress of... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...in it, that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which...days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...world half so stately and daintily as candlelights . . . But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which...days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit . . . Pretence... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...argument that truth is ethically equivalent to 'the good': But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. [VI, 378] This amounts to an expansion of the sentence given under the antitheses on 'Knowledge' in... | |
 | Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - 278 pages
...men alike" (Plato, Laws 730). "Add truth to life, and you get happiness" (Augustine, Sermons 306.9). "The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature" (Eacon, Essays I). Finally Locke, who effortlessly mixes all three: "I know there is truth opposite... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1997 - 594 pages
...crush out of the brain the idea that it had the right to think. . ";e splendid saying of Lord Bacon, that " the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...tHe belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, are the sovereign good of human nature," has been, and ever will be, rejected by religionists. Intellectual... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1997 - 594 pages
...crush out of the brain the idea that it had the right to think. ... ';2 splendid saying of Lord Bacon, that " the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...tHe belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, are the sovereign good of human nature," has been, and ever will be, rejected by religionists. Intellectual... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...style of Sir Francis Bacon. What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. . . . The knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it;...enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature. Bacon, who perfected the essay form in English on the French model of Montaigne, used his writing to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...spake of before. But howsoever1 these things are thus in men's depraved judgments2 and affections,3 yet truth,* which only doth judge itself, teacheth...it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature5 of God, in the works of the days,* was the light of the sense; the last was the light of... | |
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But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet 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 the presence of it,... 
