 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - 576 pages
...— WHAT is truth? was an inquiry many ages since;* and it being that which all mankind either do, * "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." (Bacon's Essays on Truth, p. 1.) The reader, it is probable, will in this place call to mind a passage... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pages
...and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd15 ! 12 Prov. xxiii. 5. 11 Bacon otherwise — " What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." — Essay i. '5 O knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he ! who far from public rage Deep... | |
 | United Church journal - 1856 - 346 pages
...or viewed through a good glass, proves to be a mere mass of unsubstantial vapours. ESSAY I. TRUTH. " What is Truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Any one of Bacon's acuteness — or of a quarter of it, might easily have perceived, had he at all... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1854 - 292 pages
...to accompany him to the close of his speculations ; but that hope has sustained its disappointment. What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. What is the verb? exclaims the serious reader of the Eirea and cannot obtain one. WHAT IS THE VERB... | |
 | 1854 - 500 pages
...mighty thunderbolts. From their remaius sprung the race of man. They retain much of the rebellious what is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an auswer." — Bacons " Essays" spirit of their Titan predecessors, and suffer the miseries of life on... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pages
...indispensable conditions of a skilful and effective use of language.] EXTRACT I. Truth. LORD BACON. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.' " l 1 Essays. ESSAYS. I.— OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; * and would'...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,... | |
 | 1856 - 492 pages
...element necessary for the moral development and satisfaction of man's nature." THE POWER OF TRUTH. " 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 that kind be... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...— " The Way, the Truth, and the Life." Bacon states the matter somewhat differently from Cowper : " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." — Essay I. And wherefore ? will not God impart his light To them that ask it ? — Freely — 'tis... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...a pleasure embased by no appendant sting.' — South. 4 E&ais, Liv. ii. chap, xviii. ANNOTATIONS. ' What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an auswer' Any one of Bacon's acuteness, or of a quarter of it, might easily have perceived, had he at... | |
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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... 
