 | John Baillie - 1878 - 462 pages
...or in action. ' " What is Truth ? " said jesting Pilate,' writes Lord Bacon in his Essay on Truth, ' and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there...affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting.' Our friend reckoned it no honour to be emancipated from the 'bonds' of a fixed belief, but rejoiced... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...Certainly there be 2 that delight in giddiness; 3 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting 4 free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though...be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, 5 which are of the same veins, 6 though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1878 - 790 pages
...•••50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TRUTH. WBAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay...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 acting.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...WHITAKER, and .are to be sold at the sign of the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard. 1615. ESSAYS ESSAYS WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate ; and would not...sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there 5 remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins ; though there be not so much blood in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...Certainly there be2 that delight in giddiness;3 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting4 free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though...kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits,5 which are of the same veins,6 though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1879 - 304 pages
...superstitions, it is nevertheless a help to faith ... ' What is truth ? ' asked Pilate. Certainly there are that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. It is not only the difficulty and labour which men have in finding out of truth that doth bring lies... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 380 pages
...which at once arrest and fix the attention. Thus, discoursing of " Truth," Bacon commences thus — " 'What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate, and would...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief." And a modern critic would fancy he was clever in catching up the author, and telling him that Pilate... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...BACON. ESSAYS.* OF TKUTH. ""WHAT is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. 1 Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing*•wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...AND MORAL. [FRANCIS BACON.* BOKN 1561 : DIED 1626.] OF TRUTH. "WHAT is truth?" said jesting Pilate ;f as tr @W/ sect of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of... | |
 | Kathleen Knox - 1882 - 156 pages
...Francis, Lord Bacon. OF TRUTH. What is Truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an'answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness and count...And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be rare, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so... | |
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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... 
