 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...  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Strona 1autor: Francis Bacon - 1812 - Liczba stron: 295Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | William Cowper - 1856 - Liczba stron: 464
...— " The Way, the Truth, and the Life." Bacon states the matter somewhat differently from Cowper : " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." — Essay I. And wherefore ? will not God impart his light To them that ask it ? — Freely — 'tis... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - Liczba stron: 562
...a pleasure embased by no appendant sting.' — South. 4 E&ais, Liv. ii. chap, xviii. ANNOTATIONS. ' What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an auswer' Any one of Bacon's acuteness, or of a quarter of it, might easily have perceived, had he at... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - Liczba stron: 812
...said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness1, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting...be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits 2 which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was 'in those 'of the ancients.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - Liczba stron: 412
...faid jefting Pilate, and would not ftay for an Anfwer.1 Certainly there be that delight in Giddinefs, and count it a Bondage to fix a Belief; affecting Free-will in Thinking as well as in Adting. And though the Sedts of Philofophers of that Kind be gone, yet there remain certain difcourfing... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1857 - Liczba stron: 812
...to declare to the worlde that who soo be of TUOUTH wyll here my worde. Than 1 See John, xviii. 38. " "What is Truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer." — Bacon's Essays. * [" CANONICA, in philosophical history, an appellation given by Epicurus to his... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - Liczba stron: 578
...pleasure eiribased by no appendant sting.' — South. 4 Essais, liv. ii. chap, xviii. ANNOTATIONS. ' ' What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' Any one of Bacon's acuteness, or of a quarter of it, might easily have perceived, had he at all attended... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - Liczba stron: 792
...57. Of Anger. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. iI R 4 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TEUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not...be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits 2 which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - Liczba stron: 620
...FRAGMENT OF AN ESSAY ON FAME 572 THE PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE 576 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' T T7HAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting1 free-will in thinking, as well as in actiug — and, though the sects of philosophers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - Liczba stron: 790
...Judicature. 57. Of Anger. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. DB 4 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not...for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness1, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in... | |
 | 1859 - Liczba stron: 764
...hardly necessary to point out the coincidence with the commencement of Bacon's Essay on Truth : — " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Donne's Sermon was preached Feb. 16, 1620. I suppose there can be Jittle doubt he had Bacon's phrase... | |
| |
