 | 1854 - 696 pages
...WHAT is TRUTH V — Bacon begins hi« "Essay of Truth "(which is dated 1625) with these words : " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainlv, there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...scattered counsels, for they will rather distract and mislead than settle and direct. Of Truth. What is Truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing... | |
 | John Kentish - 1846 - 444 pages
...sufficiently declares the annotator's opinion of the spirit in which the inquiry was made. "' What is Truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." I doubt the correctness of this comment. That raillery and banter were now expressed by Pilate, we... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...Laudowne Collection, No. 105, ft. 317. • Harlelan, vol. ii. p. 190. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth 1 said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer....philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursive wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
 | 1893 - 688 pages
...bat their principal stubbornness is most seen when any attempt is made to get them verified. "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. He might in oar enlightened day have asked, " What is a fact ? " and have stayed long enough without... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...Lansilownc Collection, No. 205, fo. 217. • Harleian, vol. ii. p. 196. rv« г-г. ESSAYS. 3- I. OF T \VHAT true, "Cor no edito," — "eat * 1 will conclude thisjust fruit of frien Ihere be that delight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free:will in... | |
 | Elijah Ridings - 1850 - 200 pages
...discovered, and how much remained undiscovered. (32) " But jesting Pilate ask'd the question once." What is Truth? Said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Vide Bacon's Essays. (33) " A book of figures, or a studious course Of mathematical deductions." Mathematical... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...ALBAN. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. 1. What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer1. Certainly there be* that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting5 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...Lansdowne Collection, No. 205, fo. 217. « Harleian, vol. ii. p. 196. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth1? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer....philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursive wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
 | Joseph Esmond Riddle - 1852 - 552 pages
...1 846 ; and Sketches of Moral and Mental Philosophy, chap. i. § 37. — " Certainly there be some that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage...fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing... | |
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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. 
