TRUTH. 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... The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 1by Francis Bacon - 1815Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...lead your Grace by the hand. 1625. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRAN. ST. ALBAN. I. to have drinks of extreme thin parts, to insinuate...into the body, and yet without all biting, sharpness, (Wight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well... | |
| United Church journal - 1856 - 346 pages
...closely, 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... | |
| 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... | |
| John Locke, James Augustus St. John - Language and languages - 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... | |
| Great Britain - 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 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...faid jefting Pilate, and would not ftay for an Anfwer.1 Certainly there be that delight in Giddinefs, and count it a Bondage to fix a Belief; affecting Free-will in Thinking as well as in Adting. And though the Sedts of Philofophers of that Kind be gone, yet there remain certain difcourfing... | |
| John Horne Tooke - English language - 1857 - 812 pages
...to declare to the worlde that who soo be of TUOUTH 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. * [" CANONICA, in philosophical history, an appellation given by Epicurus to his... | |
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