 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...  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Page 1by Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Esmond Riddle - Faith - 1852 - 552 pages
...1 846 ; and Sketches of Moral and Mental Philosophy, chap. i. § 37. — " Certainly there be some that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...the Hand. Your Grace's most obliged andfaithfull Servant, less. FB. ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.i Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1854 - 778 pages
...Dublin. " What is Truth?" — Bacon begins his "Essay of Truth" (which is dated 1625) with these words: " What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not...affecting freewill in thinking, as well as in acting." There is a similar passage in Bishop Andrews's sermon Of the Resurrection, preached in 1613: "Pilate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...Grace by the hand. 1625. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRAN. ST. ALBAN. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that (Wight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United Church journal - 1856 - 346 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1856 - 492 pages
...element necessary for the moral development and satisfaction of man's nature." THE POWER OF TRUTH. " Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remains certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in... | |
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