| Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...lead your Grace by the hand. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful Servant, FR. ST. ALBAN. CrutD. is Truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...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 gone,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...Your grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRAN. ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...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 gone,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 pages
...into action : " the King can do no wrong " ; therefore men shall call right all that he does.'* ' " What is truth ? " said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' What has truth to do with it ? was the thought, expressed or not, of the men who cowered before Henry... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS LORD VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN. VOL. III. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...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 gone,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS LORD VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...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 gone,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS LORD VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate; and would not...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 gone,... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...and next of your Majesty, to whom on earth I am most bounden. ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF THUTH. What is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...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 gone,... | |
| 1825 - 808 pages
...tells Sir Walter Scott, (credat Gualterus! ) that " he would fa in IMAGINE he had only one object — TROTH." •' What is Truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. We put the same question to the Doctor, and " pause for a reply." Is misrepresentation truth ? Is slauder... | |
| James Browne, John Macculloch - 1825 - 316 pages
...Walter Scott, (credat Gualterus !) that " he would fain IMAGINE he had only one object — TRUTH." " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." We put the same question to the Doctor, and " pause for a reply." Is misrepresentation truth ? Is slander... | |
| 1825 - 878 pages
...Walter Scott, (credtit Gualterut! ) that " he would fain IMAGINE he had only one object — TRUTH." •' What is Truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. We put the same question to the Doctor, and " pause for a reply." Is misrepresentation truth ? Is slander... | |
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