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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. "
The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon - Page 1
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818
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The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...faidjefting Pilate, and would not rtay for an anfwer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddinefs, and count it a Bondage to fix a Belief •, affecting...thinking, as well as in acting. And though the Sects of Philofophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain difcourfing Wits, which are of the fame...
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The Temple of Truth: Or, The Best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and ...

Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 586 pages
...to hear, there gtill remains one speculative Infidel among us*. " « What is Truth ? said scoffing Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly, there be, that delight in giddiness, and who count it a bondage to fix a Belief; affecting Free-wiil in thinking, as well as in acting : and...
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The Temple of Truth: Or, The Best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and ...

Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 588 pages
...there still remains one speculative Infidel among us *. * « What is Truth ? said scoffing Pilate j and would not stay for an answer. Certainly, there be, that delight in giddiness, and who count it a bondage to fix a Beliefj affecting Free-will in thinking, as well as in acting : and...
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Epea Pteroenta, Part 2

John Horne Tooke - 1807 - 506 pages
...and for to declare " to the worlde that who soo be of TROUTH wyll ( a ) See John xviii. 38. " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate; " and would not stay for an answer." Bacon's Essays. ( b ) Nichodemus was the patron apostle of our ancestors the Anglo-Saxons and their...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...Bacon.) " WHAT is Truth," said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for answer. Certainly there are many that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...gone ; yet there remain certain discoursing wits, who are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients....
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Sortes Horatianae: A Poetical Review of Poetical Talent, with Notes

1814 - 138 pages
...speculative Philosophers of the 16th century, apply to those of the present day : " Certainly," says he, " 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 j and though the sect of philosophers of that kind be gone,...
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Essays moral, economical and political

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...hand. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...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...
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Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Volumes 1-2

Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...hand. t Your Grace's rnoft obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS ST. ALB AN. ESSAYS. I. OF TROTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...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,...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 1

1821 - 416 pages
...hand. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS ST. ALBAN. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is trnth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer....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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 184

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 pages
...action : " the King can do no wrong " ; therefore men shall call right all that he does.'* ' " What is truth ? " said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' What has truth to do with it ? was the thought, expressed or not, of the men who cowered before Henry...
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