 | Rev. G. W. Grogan - 1877 - 340 pages
...waves and eddies of the "alternate Fight."1 " Certainly," says the profound Bacon, " there be some that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing" (discursive) " wits which are of the same vein, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
 | George Finlay - Byzantine Empire - 1877 - 548 pages
...without studying the writings of Dr. Robinson or Dr. Tobler, it is enough to observe, with Bacon, — 'Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting*.' Plus negare potest asinus, quam probare philosophus. On the other hand, the identity of the present... | |
 | George Finlay - Byzantine Empire - 1877 - 550 pages
...without studying the writings of Dr. Robinson or Dr. Tobler, it is enough to observe, with Bacon, — 'Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting3.' Plus negare potest asinus, quam probare philosophus. On the other hand, the identity of the... | |
 | Maxwell Steer - Music - 1996 - 192 pages
...Richardson, Penguin UK. 1959 quoted in Tucker Dreaming a'if/i O;VM Eyes. 2. Knowledge and Individuation "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. The riddle at the heart of opening sentence of Bacon's Essay on Truth has preoccupied thinkers since... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman, fssays, "Of Truth" (1597-1 625). 7 What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Truth" (1597-1 625).... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...elaboration contrasts with the much more economical, yet rhetorical, style of Sir Francis Bacon. What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. . . . The knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying... | |
 | Lionel Fanthorpe, P. A. Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe - Reference - 1998 - 244 pages
...undoubtedly deserves a little more human sympathy than he has received so far. Chapter 21 Francis Bacon "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. (From Bacon's Essay on Truth) The mystery of Francis Bacon begins with his birth itself. It has frequently... | |
 | Evan Whitton - Law - 1998 - 260 pages
...knew the quibble was merely an attempt to shift the goalposts. In Of Truth (1597), he wrote: '"What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Pilate was sent to Rome in 36 to answer to the Emperor Tiberius for wretched behaviour. His end is... | |
 | Carl Woodring - Education - 1999 - 250 pages
...always corrupts to paidia, play, linguistic pastime. If Bacon on truth would be too harsh— "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer" — then in keeping with Kant's description of the aesthetic as disinterested free play of taste, Derrida... | |
 | Tom Tymoczko, Jim Henle - Mathematics - 2004 - 670 pages
...against which to check the technical definitions. FO RM AL LO GIC: O VERVI EW TRUTH AND FALSITY What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. — FRANCIS BACON The simple statement "Joan is female" is true (often abbreviated T) if and only if... | |
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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. 
