 | Francis Bacon - 2007 - 157 pages
...ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL I OP TRUTH TT TTHAT is tmthf said jesting Pilate, and would not I/I/ stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight...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 of that... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2008 - 244 pages
...rhetorical questions. Francis Bacon begins his examination of truth by invoking the Gospel of John: 'What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; And would not...for an Answer. Certainly there be, that delight in Giddinesse; And count it a Bondage, to fix a Beleefe."25 The study of forgery has attracted many modern... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...mei. • Lunsdowne Collection, No. 80S, fo. 817. • Harleian, vol. ii. p. 196. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. , the pleasures of the intellect or understanding...is satiety, and after they be used, their verdure discoursive wits, which are of the same veins, though there he not so much blood in them as was in... | |
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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... 
