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" 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... "
The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 1
by Francis Bacon - 1815
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The Passion play [at Oberammergau].

William Watkins Old - 1872 - 168 pages
...question," and echo that shallow observation with which Lord Bacon opened his celebrated essay upon Truth — " What is Truth, said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer" — But it was in gravest enquiry that the words " Was ist Wahrheit ? " were pronounced by the Pilate...
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Oxford and Cambridge: Their Colleges, Memories, and Associations

Frederick Arnold - 1873 - 418 pages
...it, except he become first as a little child." Admirable, too, though more familiar, is his essay on Truth : "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate; and...Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects...
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The Essays of Lord Bacon: With Critical and Illustrative Notes ...

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...Fame 225 ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting1 Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.2 Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting3 free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that...
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On the pursuit of truth as exemplified in the principles of evidence ...

A. Elley Finch - 1873 - 168 pages
...reflection.' — Buckle, History of Civilization, vol. i. pp. 852, 853. NOTES. NOTE A, p. 1. What is Truth? ' " What is Truth ? " said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' — Bacon's Essays, ' Of Truth,' i. Archbishop Whately, in his annotated edition of Bacon's Essays,...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...Fragment of an Essay on Fame 570 The Praise of Knowledge 574 BACON'S ESSAYS, ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' TTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief—affecting 1 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting—and, though the Beets of philosophers...
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...inductive method of scientific investigation, and of a volume of Essays, from which the extracts are taken. TRUTH. WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would...Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it as a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free will in thinking as well as in acting. And although the...
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A Dark Secret, Volume 1

Eliza Rhyl Davies - 1875 - 302 pages
...was almost morbid. The simpler a truth is, the harder it is to hit Moreover, and this is serious, " there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief affecting free will in thinking as well as acting.* Dr. Fraser gave up his profession for no other reason than...
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The task; Tirocinium, etc

William Cowper - 1875 - 352 pages
...that Christ ' deigned no reply 'to Pilate, is at least as questionable as that of Bacon (Essay i.) : 'What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' II. 290-304. Cp. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 1234: ' Oh ! knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he,...
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Cowper

William Cowper - 1875 - 340 pages
...that Christ * deigned no reply' to Pilate, is at least as questionable as that of Bacon (Essay i.) : 1 What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' II. 290-304. Cp. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 1234: ' Oh! knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he,...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...resisted them as much as he could without losing the power to resist them at all. FRANCIS BACON. ESSAYS/ OF TRUTH. "WHAT is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.1 Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting...
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