| 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,... | |
| 1854 - 696 pages
..." WHAT is TRUTH V — Bacon begins hi« "Essay of Truth "(which is dated 1625) with these words : " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainlv, there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...upon scattered counsels, for they will rather distract and mislead than settle and direct. 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 acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...know upon what authority. plete edition, the first is entitled ' Of Truth,' and is as follows : — '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 Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...first is entitled ' Of Truth,' and is as follows : — ' What is Truth V said jesting Pilate, anil would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that...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 Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...entitled ' Of Truth,' and is as follows : — ' What is Truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not slay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in...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,... | |
| John Kentish - 1846 - 444 pages
...question sufficiently declares the annotator's opinion of the spirit in which the inquiry was made. "' What is Truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." I doubt the correctness of this comment. That raillery and banter were now expressed by Pilate, we... | |
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