 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pages
...Answer. Certainly there be, that delight in Giddinesse; And count it a Bondage, to fix a Beleefe ; Affecting Freewill in Thinking, as well as in Acting. And though the Sects of Philosophers of that Kinde be gone, yet there remaine certaine discoursing Wits, which are of the same veines, though there... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 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... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 530 pages
...in the midst of these accretions from every source, the Truth, which it is his province to dispense. 'What is truth,' said jesting Pilate, 'and would not stay for an answer.' Wiser and better men than Pilate ask the same question after long, and patient, and loving search.... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...words in his essay " of Truth," gives proof positive of his indifference to it, morally. By saying "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Whereas there is not the slightest foundation in Pilate's conduct, throughout the trial of Jesus, for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 642 pages
...Anfwer. Certainly there be, that delight in Giddineffe; And count it a Bondage, to fix 1 a Beleefe; Affecting Freewill in Thinking, as well as in Acting. And though the Seels of Philofophers of that Kinde be gone, yet there remaine certaine difcourfing 2 Wits, which are... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
