 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...faid jefting Pilate, and would not ftay for an Anfwer.1 Certainly there be that delight in Giddinefs, and count it a Bondage to fix a Belief; affecting Free-will in Thinking as well as in Adting. And though the Sedts of Philofophers of that Kind be gone, yet there remain certain difcourfing... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...eiribased by no appendant sting.' — South. 4 Essais, liv. ii. chap, xviii. ANNOTATIONS. ' ' What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' Any one of Bacon's acuteness, or of a quarter of it, might easily have perceived, had he at all attended... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1860 - 812 pages
...declare to the vvorlde that who soo be of TROUTII wyll here my worde. Than 1 See John, xviii. 38. "What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer." — Bacon's Kssays. 1 [" CANONICA, in philosophical history, an appellation given by Epicurus to his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...Of Anger. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. iI R 4 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TEUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay...be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits 2 which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Philosophy - 1858 - 620 pages
...FRAGMENT OF AN ESSAY ON FAME 572 THE PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE 576 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' T T7HAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting1 free-will in thinking, as well as in actiug — and, though the sects of philosophers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...Of Anger. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. DB 4 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness1, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1859 - 764 pages
...necessary to point out the coincidence with the commencement of Bacon's Essay on Truth : — " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Donne's Sermon was preached Feb. 16, 1620. I suppose there can be Jittle doubt he had Bacon's phrase... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness,1 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting...kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits2 which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1860 - 544 pages
...for some passages on "Truth." " ' What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for »n 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 that kind be gone,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 pages
...451 466 469 472 612 619 523 686 641 549 658 564 570 574 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' \VTHAT is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...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... | |
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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. 
