 | John Horne Tooke - 1857 - 812 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...pleasure eiribased by no appendant sting.' — South. 4 Essais, liv. ii. chap, xviii. ANNOTATIONS. ' ' What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' Any one of Bacon's acuteness, or of a quarter of it, might easily have perceived, had he at all attended... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pages
...FRAGMENT OF AN ESSAY ON FAME 572 THE PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE 576 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' T T7HAT 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 actiug — and, though the sects of philosophers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...Judicature. 57. Of Anger. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. DB 4 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not...for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness1, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in... | |
 | 1859 - 764 pages
...hardly necessary to point out the coincidence with the commencement of Bacon's Essay on Truth : — " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Donne's Sermon was preached Feb. 16, 1620. I suppose there can be Jittle doubt he had Bacon's phrase... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1863 - 836 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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... 
