 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...Your grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRAN. ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...sects of 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...by the hand. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not...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 - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...the hand. t Your Grace's rnoft obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS ST. ALB AN. ESSAYS. I. OF TROTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not...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 gone,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...hand. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS ST. ALBAN. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is trnth ? 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 philosophers of that kind be... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...into action : " the King can do no wrong " ; therefore men shall call right all that he does.'* ' " What is truth ? " said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' What has truth to do with it ? was the thought, expressed or not, of the men who cowered before Henry... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...and next of your Majesty, to whom on earth I am most bounden. ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF THUTH. What is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...sects of 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS LORD VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate; and would not...sects of 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS LORD VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN. VOL. III. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...sects of 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL, OF FRANCIS LORD VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...sects of 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... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 878 pages
...Walter Scott, (credtit Gualterut! ) that " he would fain IMAGINE he had only one object — TRUTH." •' What is Truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. We put the same question to the Doctor, and " pause for a reply." Is misrepresentation truth ? Is slander... | |
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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... 
