 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...extracts from the Essays are the same as in the edition, with notes, by Dr. WC Taylor, 8vo., Lend. 1840.) good of human nature. The first creature of God in the works of the days was the light of I ho sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath-work ever since is the illumination... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheti that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the helief of truth, which is the enjoying Tlf it, is the sovereign * The wine of devils. (The'translations... | |
 | 1847 - 624 pages
...should remember the words of Bacon, whose life he has written,— " That the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge...enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature." To which I will add, in the words of Dr. Esdaile,— " That this highest gratification of humanity... | |
 | 1880 - 492 pages
...in the Septuagint — " the girdle of His reins." Lord Bacon says that " the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." How few of us even when we do not speak lies are true in act and to ourselves ! Is not this the case... | |
 | James Esdaile - Hypnotism - 1847 - 290 pages
...rewarded. To encourage them, I would remind them in the words of Bacon, " that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge...enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature ;" and that this highest gratification of humanity can only be attained by carefully training and exercising... | |
 | Emma Newton - 1847 - 230 pages
...itself is its own witness ;' and ' The enquiry of truth which is the love-making or wooing of it, and the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it,...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.' For myself, I see so much of holiness and beauty, in the religion of the New Testament, that did I... | |
 | George Jabet - Character - 1848 - 284 pages
...appreciation of pure truth. " Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge...of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The poet saith excellently well : ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon... | |
 | Phrenology - 1850 - 656 pages
...rewarded. To encourage them, I would remind them, in the words of Bacon, "that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge...enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature ;" and that this highest gratification of humanity can only be attained by carefully training and exercising... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge...the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human uature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last... | |
 | 1849 - 736 pages
...Truth," he says : " Yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the enquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence <. î it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoyment of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.... | |
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... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature. 
