 ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.  The British Prose Writers - Page 81821Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which ia the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pages
...have Truth on his side; Int it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of Truth. ' The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it.' 1 This love-making or wooing of Truth implies that first step towards attaining the establishment of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of truth, which...days, was the light of the sense : the last was the lightof reason ; and his Sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. First, he breathed... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, whxh is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge...light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; und his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the... | |
 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1859 - 590 pages
...value of this habit of accuracy in my father ! PART V. 1792 — 1793. " Truth, which doth only judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." — BACON. " And a sign shall be mercifully given to the doubt of love, which shall be refused to the... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...which is the wooing of truth, the knowledge of tr th, which is the presence of it in all its beauty ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of...it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creation of God, in the beginning, was the light of sense, the last, was the light of reason ; and... | |
 | 1860 - 544 pages
...these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The poet saith, yet excellently well : ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1860 - 606 pages
...and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon said, " truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature." Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
 | William Russell - 1860 - 184 pages
...and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon said, " truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature." Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of 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... | |
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