...* Lettres de Descartes, Tome 1., p. 10. f ' Truth, which doth only judge itself, teacheth that tlie inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing...enjoying of it : is the sovereign good of human nature.' — Bacon's Essay on Truth. 284 MORAL MEDITATIONS. them : for three things chiefly disturb our peace...

...cannot therefore be conveniently compared with the other materials. DCIDS ana Dotes. " Truth, which doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of truth,...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. — BACON. THE subjects for discussion at the Stomatology Section of the International Congress of...

...in it, that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which...days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed...

...world half so stately and daintily as candlelights . . . But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which...days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit . . . Pretence...

...argument that truth is ethically equivalent to 'the good': But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. [VI, 378] This amounts to an expansion of the sentence given under the antitheses on 'Knowledge' in...

...men alike" (Plato, Laws 730). "Add truth to life, and you get happiness" (Augustine, Sermons 306.9). "The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature" (Eacon, Essays I). Finally Locke, who effortlessly mixes all three: "I know there is truth opposite...

...crush out of the brain the idea that it had the right to think. . ";e splendid saying of Lord Bacon, that " the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...tHe belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, are the sovereign good of human nature," has been, and ever will be, rejected by religionists. Intellectual...

...crush out of the brain the idea that it had the right to think. ... ';2 splendid saying of Lord Bacon, that " the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...tHe belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, are the sovereign good of human nature," has been, and ever will be, rejected by religionists. Intellectual...

...style of Sir Francis Bacon. What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. . . . The knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it;...enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature. Bacon, who perfected the essay form in English on the French model of Montaigne, used his writing to...

...spake of before. But howsoever1 these things are thus in men's depraved judgments2 and affections,3 yet truth,* which only doth judge itself, teacheth...it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature5 of God, in the works of the days,* was the light of the sense; the last was the light of...