 | 1862 - 838 pages
...waiting for some passing gust or floating zephyr to send them adrift. We will give a few specimens: "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." (This, the poet Cowper has finely used in his " Task.") " There is no vice that doth so cover a mail... | |
 | 1863 - 836 pages
...skirmish. There is a world of meaning in the opening sentence of Lord Bacon's essay " Of Truth." "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate; and would not stay...answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness," — a statement which we cordially recommend to the careful consideration of various metropolitan friends.... | |
 | 1863 - 632 pages
...and reverend authority, than Lord Bacon. " Certainly there be," he says in his first Essay, " that count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting free-will in thinking, as well as iu acting,— and, though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain discoursing... | |
 | 1863 - 1076 pages
...it, which we do not find given in those of the wars of our time. ' Certainly/ says Bacon, in one of ' there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief;' and a writer who thus quotes him, says, ' Scepticism of all truth and certainty is not unfrequently... | |
 | Education - 1863 - 360 pages
...modified by the adjective adjunct immortal, and has its relation to worthy shown by of. SECOND EXAMPLE. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix it a belief — affecting-free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and', though the sects- of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...BACON'S ESSAYS. . ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' TTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay W for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affectingi free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and, though the sects of philosophers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...53. Of Praise. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. ESSAYS OE COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TBUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness,1 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in... | |
 | Bracebridge Hemyng - 1865 - 338 pages
...don't bother !" cried Fanny, losing patience. This was not, strictly speaking, matter of fact. " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer." It is thought excusable to tell fibs to children ; but perhaps it would be as well to be candid and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would [1] not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that [2] 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...Fame . . The Praise of Knowledge PAOB 549 558 564 570 574 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' 'YTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting1 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and, though the sects of philosophers... | |
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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. 
