 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 556 pages
...depraved Judgments and ArFe&ions, yet TRUTH (which only doth judge itfelf) teaches, that the Inquiry after TRUTH, which is the Lovemaking, or Wooing of it; the Knowledge of TRUTH, which is the Prefence of it ; and the Reception of, and Affeat to TRUTH, which is the Enjoying B z of 4 Of TR -tr... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...but the Lie that finks in, and fettles in it ; fuch f mean as we fpake of before. But howfoever thefe Things are thus, in Men's depraved Judgments and Affections, yet TRUTH (which only doth judge itfelf) teaches, that the Inquiry after TRUT H, which is the Lovemaking, or Wooing of it; the Knowledge... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...depraved judgments and affections ; yet truth, which only judges itself, teaches, that the enquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it,...the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, aud the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...paradoxical ; but, as Lord Bacon says, ' Works of imagination hurt not a child : taking them at the worst, it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settlclh in it, which doth the hurt ;' and it may be justly questioned whether, in banishing the world... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...it is but with the shadow of a lye. But it is not the lye that passeth through the mind, but the lye that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the...of before. But howsoever these things are thus in mens depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, -out the lie, that sinketh in and settleth in it, that...itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
..." vinum daemonum," becanse it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie, that sinkcth in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
..." vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind,...itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
..." vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie, thatsinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...poesy " vinum daemonum," because it nlleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind,...are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, y»t truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making... | |
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But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it... 
