 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 Watkins Old - 1872 - Liczba stron: 168
...and echo that shallow observation with which Lord Bacon opened his celebrated essay upon Truth — " What is Truth, said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer" — But it was in gravest enquiry that the words " Was ist Wahrheit ? " were pronounced by the Pilate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - Liczba stron: 266
...Fame 225 ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting1 Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.2 Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting3 free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that... | |
 | A. Elley Finch - 1873 - Liczba stron: 168
...— 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 - 1874 - Liczba stron: 700
...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 - Liczba stron: 274
...method of scientific investigation, and of a volume of Essays, from which the extracts are taken. TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not...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 - Liczba stron: 100
...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 - Liczba stron: 302
...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 - Liczba stron: 340
...that 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 - 1875 - Liczba stron: 352
...that 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - Liczba stron: 300
...not 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,... | |
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