 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 páginas
...your majesty, to whom on earth I am most bounden. ESSAYS CIVIL AND MORAL. L OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer....in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sect of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certaindiscoursingwits, which are of the... | |
 | Rev. G. W. Grogan - 1877 - 340 páginas
...waves and eddies of the "alternate Fight."1 " Certainly," says the profound Bacon, " there be some that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing" (discursive) " wits which are of the same vein, though there be not so much blood in them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 páginas
...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...acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that < QV«-A / ^*' kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits 2 which are of the same veins,... | |
 | George Finlay - 1877 - 548 páginas
...without studying the writings of Dr. Robinson or Dr. Tobler, it is enough to observe, with Bacon, — 'Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting*.' Plus negare potest asinus, quam probare philosophus. On the other hand, the identity of the present... | |
 | George Finlay - 1877 - 550 páginas
...without studying the writings of Dr. Robinson or Dr. Tobler, it is enough to observe, with Bacon, — 'Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and...belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting3.' Plus negare potest asinus, quam probare philosophus. On the other hand, the identity of the... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 páginas
...1582-Я, and in circulation till IfiOl. K88AY8, CIVIL AND MOBAL. or TROTH (1(125). 1 ' What is truth ?" * said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer....in acting. And though the sects of philosophers- of tliat kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which arc of the same veins, though there... | |
 | John Baillie - 1878 - 462 páginas
...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.) - 1879 - 272 páginas
....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 stay for an answer....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 - 406 páginas
...starting-post to-morrow.' " l 1 Essays. ESSAYS. I.— OF TBUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; l and would not stay for an answer. Certainly, there...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 in those... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 380 páginas
...and fix the attention. Thus, discoursing of " Truth," Bacon commences thus — " 'What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer....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... | |
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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 of... 
