 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 892 oldal
...soft, now loud, unto the wind did call, The gcndy warbling wind low tampering to all. fynuer. What is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Bacvn's Kssarjt, (ioodncss anstecrs to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess but error.... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1830 - 68 oldal
...ANOBL COVBT, SKISNEB SIItEET, 10MBOK. THE WORK OF THE REVEREND ROBERT TAYLOR, STYLED THE DIEGESIS. " 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 ba gone,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 oldal
...BACON. Frvm my Chamber at Oray>i IKS. tlutZMvf January, l&J. ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 oldal
...rural leisure pass'd l5 ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets, 14 Bacon otherwise — " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." — Essay i. 15 O knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he ! who far from puhlic rage Though... | |
 | Protestant association - 1855 - 404 oldal
...Nothing inconsistent therewith can ever be for the real and lasting benefit of men or nations. " " ' What is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer," is the opening sentence of one of Lord Bacon's short, lucid, and important essays. The same question... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 oldal
...cover'd by his tomb, And guardian laurels oVr his ashes bloom. ESSAYS. [Truth.] I.— OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay...sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remains certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 616 oldal
...copulentur." BACON — De Augmentis Scientiarum, Lib. U. cap. 4. ON THE GROUNDS AND SOURCES OF HISTORY. "CERTAINLY there be that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief.'' This trite quotation from the first of Bacon's beautiful and compendious Essays, describes a not uncommon... | |
 | 1842 - 740 oldal
...Scepticism, which reminds us of a transcendantly glorious passage in one of Foster's Essays: — " ' Certainly there be that delight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief.' This trite quotation from the first of Bacon's beautiful and compendious Essays, describes a not uncommon... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1849 - 458 oldal
...of sceptical criticism must be abhorred. LOBD BACON'S adage is, alas, too often verified : " Certain there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief : " for in the discursive reading which we have found necessary for illustrating CALVIN'S EZEKIEL,... | |
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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. 
