 | 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... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1830 - 68 pages
...ANOBL COVBT, SKISNEB SIItEET, 10MBOK. THE WORK OF THE REVEREND ROBERT TAYLOR, STYLED THE DIEGESIS. " 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 ba gone,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...FRAN. BACON. Frvm my Chamber at Oray>i IKS. tlutZMvf January, l&J. ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remains certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
