 | Religion - 1857 - 996 pages
...ideas run all through his works, from the first page to the last. Thus in the first of his Essays : Yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth...the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; arid the belief of truth, which is the enjoyment of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The... | |
 | Universalism - 1857 - 444 pages
...to lasting peace. Well observes Lord Bacon, that "the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making and wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." But truth is not only divine, it is also enduring. Only that which is pervaded by it abides the lapse... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments...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 truth, which is the enjoying... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 188 pages
...as may induce some active inquiry in this direction." And what is the use ? Let Bacon answer : — " The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or...the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it — is THE SOVEREIGN GOOD OF HUMAN NATURE." But what... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...things are thus in Men's depraved Judgements and Affections, yet Truth, which only doth judge itfelf, teacheth, that the Inquiry of Truth, which is the...Wooing of it ; the Knowledge of Truth, which is the Prefence of it ; and the Belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the Sovereign Good of human... | |
 | Psychiatry - 1857 - 652 pages
...annotations in the ordinary type. 1 Truth, which only doth judge of itself, teacheth that the enquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it...the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature The poet... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 190 pages
...truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it — is THE SOVEREIGN GOOD OF HUMAN NATURE." But what is the practical use ? Let Schlegel answer : — " The admiration of Shakespeare remained... | |
 | American essays - 1886 - 910 pages
...conducive to happiness. Bacon, it should be noted, takes care to say just afterward, " But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature." So that, after all, the boys might quote the philosopher... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 894 pages
...at length, an intellectual and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon s;iid, " truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that...of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature." Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
 | Mary Anne Galton Schimmelpenninck, Christiana C. Hankin - 1858 - 576 pages
...importance and value of this habit of accuracy in my father ! PART V. 1792—1793. " Truth, which doth only judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth,...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." — BACOR. " And a sign shall be mercifully given to the doubt of love, which shall be refused to the... | |
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... 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 truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. 
