 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...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...as in acting. And, though the sects of philosophers 2 of that kind be gone, » Sects. Bacon alludes to the disciples of Pyrrho—the Sceptics, or Pyrrhonists.... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...the course of time, and Francis Bacon, perceiving its barren and stationary OF TRUTH, What is truth? d with the florid hue 310 Of rainbows and starry eyes....and morn solemniz'd the Fifth Day. thus With fish re character, formed it, as its name implies, into a search after truth ; this he did in so masterly a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1886 - 304 pages
...Negotiating . . 62* Things . . . 99* 48 Of Followers and Friends . 6S* ESSAYS ESSAYS i €ruth is Truth f said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer....sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there s remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins ; though there be not so much blood in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...Your Grace's most obliged and faithful Servant, FR. 'Sx. ALBAN, ESSAYS. OF TRUTH. , "WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.-...philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...MORAL. [FRANCIS BACON.* BORN 1561 : DIED 1026.] OF TRUTH. "WHAT ia truth ?" said jesting Pilate ;f ; but told him, at the same time, that it might be...and that he himself would be at the charge of it. sect of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness1, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting...philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits 2 which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 pages
...Your Grace's most obliged and faithful Servant, FK. ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS. i. OF TRUTH. "WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer....philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 pages
...statesman, moralist and philosopher. FRANCIS BACON. ESSAYS AND EXTRACTS. ESSAYS.* OF TRUTH, f What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer....giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; J affecting § free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 pages
...said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness1, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting...philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits 2 which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 300 pages
...VICISSITUDE OF THINGS .... 267 ESSAYS CIVIL AND MORAL I. — OF TRUTH. (1625.) " WHAT is truth ? " said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer....and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting 1 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sect of philosophers of that kind be... | |
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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. And though the sects of philosophers of... 
