 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 542 pages
...usually cites the original. We simply translate these citations into English : OF TRUTH. "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer....and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting a free-will in thinking as well as in acting. But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1900 - 376 pages
...time will aye confirm ! 1 P. 52. ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL Essay I. Of Truth HAT 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - Conduct of life - 1900 - 318 pages
..." This is not altogether fool, my lord," &c. FREEDOM of Thought. " Thought is free"—Promus 653. " Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting." — Ess. of Truth. " Thought is free."— Twelfth Night i. 3, 69 ; and Temp. iii. 2 (Song). " Then,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 622 pages
...not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to tix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well...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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 474 pages
...crucifixion in the Christianity of the steam engine and the electric motor. WVB OF TRUTH WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer....and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sect of philosophers of that kind be gone,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1902 - 538 pages
...sovereigns who still rule Our spirits from their urns." OF TRUTH From the < Essays > WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer....delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a beliaf; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - English essays - 1903 - 384 pages
...I ' What is Truth ' ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be 1 that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 534 pages
...cites the original. We simply translate these citations into English : OF TRUTH. "What is truth ? " said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer....and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting a free-will in thinking as well as in acting. But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 426 pages
...ffrancte Bacon. 1561-1626. OF TRUTH. (From Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, 1625.) "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer....and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of phi5 losophers of that kind be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1908 - 270 pages
...said jesting Pilate;1 and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness,2 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting...And though the sects of philosophers of that kind 8 be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits 4 which are of the same veins, though there 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... 
