 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 páginas
...Grace by the Hand. Your Grace's most obliged andfaithfull Servant, less. FB. ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.i Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 600 páginas
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 | 1854 - 778 páginas
...Dublin. " What is Truth?" — Bacon begins his "Essay of Truth" (which is dated 1625) with these words: " What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not...and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill in thinking, as well as in acting." There is a similar passage in Bishop Andrews's sermon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...lead your Grace by the hand. 1625. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRAN. ST. ALBAN. I. to have drinks of extreme thin parts, to insinuate...into the body, and yet without all biting, sharpness, (Wight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well... | |
 | United Church journal - 1856 - 346 páginas
...closely, or viewed through a good glass, proves to be a mere mass of unsubstantial vapours. ESSAY I. TRUTH. " 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... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - 576 páginas
...— WHAT is truth? was an inquiry many ages since;* and it being that which all mankind either do, * "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." (Bacon's Essays on Truth, p. 1.) The reader, it is probable, will in this place call to mind a passage... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1854 - 292 páginas
...to accompany him to the close of his speculations ; but that hope has sustained its disappointment. What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. What is the verb? exclaims the serious reader of the Eirea and cannot obtain one. WHAT IS THE VERB... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 páginas
...and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd15 ! 12 Prov. xxiii. 5. 11 Bacon otherwise — " What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." — Essay i. '5 O knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he ! who far from public rage Deep... | |
 | 1854 - 500 páginas
...mighty thunderbolts. From their remaius sprung the race of man. They retain much of the rebellious what is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an auswer." — Bacons " Essays" spirit of their Titan predecessors, and suffer the miseries of life on... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 páginas
...invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.' " l 1 Essays. ESSAYS. I.— OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; *...and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone,... | |
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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. And though the sects of philosophers of... 
