 ... 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 - Pàgina 81821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pàgines
...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...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. [VI, 378] This amounts to an expansion of the sentence given under the antitheses on 'Knowledge' in... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 802 pàgines
...success, " the inquiry of truth," as Lord Bacon finely observes, " which is the love-making, or wooing of it — and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it — being the sovereign good of human nature." Those words have the ring of a morality at once healthy,... | |
 | 1977 - 494 pàgines
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 | 1977 - 540 pàgines
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