 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 - Page 1by Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Watkins Old - 1872 - 168 pages
...and echo that shallow observation with which Lord Bacon opened his celebrated essay upon Truth — " What is Truth, said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer" — But it was in gravest enquiry that the words " Was ist Wahrheit ? " were pronounced by the Pilate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...Fame 225 ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting1 Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.2 Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting3 free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that... | |
 | A. Elley Finch - 1873 - 168 pages
...— Buckle, History of Civilization, vol. i. pp. 852, 853. NOTES. NOTE A, p. 1. What is Truth? ' " What is Truth ? " said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' — Bacon's Essays, ' Of Truth,' i. Archbishop Whately, in his annotated edition of Bacon's Essays,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...Fragment of an Essay on Fame 570 The Praise of Knowledge 574 BACON'S ESSAYS, ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' TTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief—affecting 1 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting—and, though the Beets of philosophers... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...method of scientific investigation, and of a volume of Essays, from which the extracts are taken. TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not...Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it as a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free will in thinking as well as in acting. And although the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...there be that delight in giddiness, 3 and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; 4 affecting free-will s in thinking, as well as in acting. And, though the sects of philosophers of that kind 6 be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing 7 wits which are of the same veins, 8 though there... | |
 | Eliza Rhyl Davies - 1875 - 302 pages
...was almost morbid. The simpler a truth is, the harder it is to hit Moreover, and this is serious, " there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief affecting free will in thinking as well as acting.* Dr. Fraser gave up his profession for no other reason than... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 pages
...that Christ * deigned no reply' to Pilate, is at least as questionable as that of Bacon (Essay i.) : 1 What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' II. 290-304. Cp. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 1234: ' Oh! knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 352 pages
...that Christ ' deigned no reply 'to Pilate, is at least as questionable as that of Bacon (Essay i.) : 'What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' II. 290-304. Cp. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 1234: ' Oh ! knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...not believe that the Truth — Nature's answer — is attainable, if they will but wait to be taught. What is Truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Thus, then, the Essays contain an abridgment of Bacon's life, the essence of his manners, his morals,... | |
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