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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... "
Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One - Page 13
by Francis Bacon - 1820 - 539 pages
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Nugae Literariae: Prose and Verse

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...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 11; Volume 75

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 760 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...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

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...
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Commentaries on Ezekiel. 1849-50

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,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 42

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...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

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,...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

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,...
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Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy

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,...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

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,...
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Notes and Comments on Passages of Scripture

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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