 | Charles Richardson - 1854 - 292 דפים
...to accompany him to the close of his speculations ; but that hope has sustained its disappointment. What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. What is the verb? exclaims the serious reader of the Eirea and cannot obtain one. WHAT IS THE VERB... | |
 | 1854 - 778 דפים
...Dublin. " What is Truth?" — Bacon begins his "Essay of Truth" (which is dated 1625) with these words: " 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 freewill... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - 576 דפים
...— WHAT is truth? was an inquiry many ages since;* and it being that which all mankind either do, * "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." (Bacon's Essays on Truth, p. 1.) The reader, it is probable, will in this place call to mind a passage... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 דפים
...and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd15 ! 12 Prov. xxiii. 5. 11 Bacon otherwise — " What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." — Essay i. '5 O knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he ! who far from public rage Deep... | |
 | 1854 - 500 דפים
...mighty thunderbolts. From their remaius sprung the race of man. They retain much of the rebellious what is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an auswer." — Bacons " Essays" spirit of their Titan predecessors, and suffer the miseries of life on... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 דפים
...invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.' " l 1 Essays. ESSAYS. I.— OF TRUTH. 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 freewill... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 דפים
...— " The Way, the Truth, and the Life." Bacon states the matter somewhat differently from Cowper : " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." — Essay I. And wherefore ? will not God impart his light To them that ask it ? — Freely — 'tis... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 דפים
...indispensable conditions of a skilful and effective use of language.] EXTRACT I. Truth. LORD BACON. 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 freewill... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 דפים
...a pleasure embased by no appendant sting.' — South. 4 E&ais, Liv. ii. chap, xviii. ANNOTATIONS. ' What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an auswer' Any one of Bacon's acuteness, or of a quarter of it, might easily have perceived, had he at... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1857 - 812 דפים
...to declare to the worlde that who soo be of TUOUTH 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 Essays. * [" CANONICA, in philosophical history, an appellation given by Epicurus to his... | |
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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... 
