 | James Amiraux Jeremie - 1826 - 102 pages
...so covered with shells and weeds, that its original form could no longer be distinguished. Rep.x. u "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Lord Bacon's Essays, pi 19 Cic. Acad. Quaest. 1. I. cap. 4. Diog. Laert. in Socrat. §.32. 80 Cic.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...graces arc, iapidence, affectation, strong and harsh degrees of pnde, malice, and austerity. Viher. 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. Lord Bacon'i Euayi. It Kwmeth that, as the feet have a... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 892 pages
...discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call, The gcndy warbling wind low tampering to all. fynuer. What is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Bacvn's Kssarjt, (ioodncss anstecrs to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess but error.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call, The gently warbling wind low answering to all. Spenier. What is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an anacer. Bacon'i Euayi. Goodness annceri to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess but... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...Grace by the hand. 1625. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRAN. ST. ALBAN. 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...failings cover'd by his tomb, And guardian laurels oVr his ashes bloom. ESSAYS. [Truth.] I.— OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of... 
