 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 - Pàgina 1per Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pàgines
...said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness,1 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting...kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits2 which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the... | |
 | 1860 - 544 pàgines
...for some passages on "Truth." " ' What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for »n 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 that kind be gone,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pàgines
...451 466 469 472 612 619 523 686 641 549 658 564 570 574 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' \VTHAT 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 acting — and, though the sects of philosophers... | |
 | 1862 - 838 pàgines
...waiting for some passing gust or floating zephyr to send them adrift. We will give a few specimens: "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." (This, the poet Cowper has finely used in his " Task.") " There is no vice that doth so cover a mail... | |
 | 1863 - 836 pàgines
...a skirmish. There is a world of meaning in the opening sentence of Lord Bacon's essay " Of Truth." "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate; and would not...answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness," — a statement which we cordially recommend to the careful consideration of various metropolitan friends.... | |
 | 1863 - 1076 pàgines
...it, which we do not find given in those of the wars of our time. ' Certainly/ says Bacon, in one of ' there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief;' and a writer who thus quotes him, says, ' Scepticism of all truth and certainty is not unfrequently... | |
 | 1863 - 632 pàgines
...and reverend authority, than Lord Bacon. " Certainly there be," he says in his first Essay, " that count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting free-will in thinking, as well as iu acting,— and, though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain discoursing... | |
 | 1863 - 360 pàgines
...modified by the adjective adjunct immortal, and has its relation to worthy shown by of. SECOND EXAMPLE. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix it a belief — affecting-free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and', though the sects- of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pàgines
...Anger. 53. Of Praise. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. ESSAYS OE COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TBUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not...for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness,1 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pàgines
...BACON'S ESSAYS. . ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' TTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay W for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affectingi free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and, though the sects of philosophers... | |
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