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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... "
Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Page 1
by Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness,1 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting...kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits2 which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the...
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The Quarterly Magazine of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, Manchester Unity

1860 - 544 pages
...for some passages on "Truth." " ' What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for »n 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 that kind be gone,...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pages
...451 466 469 472 612 619 523 686 641 549 658 564 570 574 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' \VTHAT is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting1 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and, though the sects of philosophers...
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The National Quarterly Review, Volumes 5-6

1862 - 838 pages
...waiting for some passing gust or floating zephyr to send them adrift. We will give a few specimens: "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." (This, the poet Cowper has finely used in his " Task.") " There is no vice that doth so cover a mail...
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The Eagle: A Magazine, Volumes 3-4

1863 - 832 pages
...a skirmish. There is a world of meaning in the opening sentence of Lord Bacon's essay " Of Truth." "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate; and would not...answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness," — a statement which we cordially recommend to the careful consideration of various metropolitan friends....
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 68

1863 - 1076 pages
...it, which we do not find given in those of the wars of our time. ' Certainly/ says Bacon, in one of ' there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief;' and a writer who thus quotes him, says, ' Scepticism of all truth and certainty is not unfrequently...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volume 25

1863 - 632 pages
...and reverend authority, than Lord Bacon. " Certainly there be," he says in his first Essay, " that count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting free-will in thinking, as well as iu acting,— and, though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain discoursing...
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Vermont School Journal and Family Visitor, Volume 5

1863 - 360 pages
...modified by the adjective adjunct immortal, and has its relation to worthy shown by of. SECOND EXAMPLE. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix it a belief — affecting-free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and', though the sects- of...
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Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...Anger. 53. Of Praise. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. ESSAYS OE COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TBUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not...for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness,1 and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...BACON'S ESSAYS. . ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' TTTHAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay W for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affectingi free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and, though the sects of philosophers...
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