 | A. Elley Finch - Evidence - 1873 - 168 pages
...Buckle, History of Civilization, vol. i. pp. 852, 853. NOTES. NOTE A, p. 1. What is Truth? ' " What is Truth ? " said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' — Bacon's Essays, ' Of Truth,' i. Archbishop Whately, in his annotated edition of Bacon's Essays,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...Fragment of an Essay on Fame 570 The Praise of Knowledge 574 BACON'S ESSAYS, ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' TTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief—affecting 1 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting—and, though the Beets of philosophers... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...scientific investigation, and of a volume of Essays, from which the extracts are taken. TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it as a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free will in thinking as well as in acting. And although the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...there be that delight in giddiness, 3 and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; 4 affecting free-will s in thinking, as well as in acting. And, though the sects of philosophers of that kind 6 be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing 7 wits which are of the same veins, 8 though there... | |
 | Eliza Rhyl Davies - 1875 - 302 pages
...was almost morbid. The simpler a truth is, the harder it is to hit Moreover, and this is serious, " there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief affecting free will in thinking as well as acting.* Dr. Fraser gave up his profession for no other reason than... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 pages
...Christ * deigned no reply' to Pilate, is at least as questionable as that of Bacon (Essay i.) : 1 What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' II. 290-304. Cp. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 1234: ' Oh! knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1875 - 352 pages
...Christ ' deigned no reply 'to Pilate, is at least as questionable as that of Bacon (Essay i.) : 'What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' II. 290-304. Cp. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 1234: ' Oh ! knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...FRANCIS BACON. ESSAYS/ OF TRUTH. "WHAT is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.1 Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing2 wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...believe that the Truth — Nature's answer — is attainable, if they will but wait to be taught. What is Truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Thus, then, the Essays contain an abridgment of Bacon's life, the essence of his manners, his morals,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...next of your majesty, to whom on earth I am most bounden. ESSAYS CIVIL AND MORAL. L OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay...in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sect of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certaindiscoursingwits, which are of the... | |
| |
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. 
