 ... 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.  The British Prose Writers - Page 81821Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; 8 the last was the light of reason ; * and his 1 Perhaps he was thinking of St. Augustine. — See... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...doth judge itself,' and, ' howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections, it teacheth that the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making...of it — is the sovereign good of human nature.' ESSAY II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...doctrines is in no way compromised by any position assumed in regard to Mesmerism. » " The inquiry after truth, which is the lovemaking or wooing of it; the...the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it," Lord Bacon says, " is the sovereign good of human nature." There was never a more sincere lover of... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pages
...he lived, as a lawyer, a courtier, and a chancellor, when he wrote, " Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature. Certainly it is a heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...it — is the sovereign good of human nature."— FKAXCIS BACON. SHAKESPEAEE NOT AN IMPOSTOR. CHAPTER I. THE NATURE OF THE CHARGE. " Then what do those... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1857 - 880 pages
...and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon said, " truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature." Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
 | Education - 1857 - 956 pages
...great ocean of uncertainty, — suffers, at length, an intellectual and moral wreck. only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature.'' Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...doth judge itself,' and, ' howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections, it teacheth that the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making...of it — is the sovereign good of human nature.' ' There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious.' This... | |
 | Universalism - 1857 - 444 pages
...to lasting peace. Well observes Lord Bacon, that "the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making and wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." But truth is not only divine, it is also enduring. Only that which is pervaded by it abides the lapse... | |
 | Religion - 1857 - 996 pages
...from the first page to the last. Thus in the first of his Essays : Yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; arid the belief of truth, which is the enjoyment of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The... | |
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