 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 páginas
...words in his essay " of Truth," gives proof positive of his indifference to it, morally. By saying "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Whereas there is not the slightest foundation in Pilate's conduct, throughout the trial of Jesus, for... | |
 | William Watkins Old - 1872 - 168 páginas
...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... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1873 - 418 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 páginas
...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... | |
 | A. Elley Finch - 1873 - 168 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 páginas
...1597': * Coined in 1582-3, and in circulation till 1601. ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. OF TRUTH (1625). u What is truth ? " * said jesting Pilate, and would...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 páginas
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 páginas
...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... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 páginas
...read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. 2. OF TRUTH. (Essay I.) What is Truth;' said jesting Pilate; and would not...and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone,... | |
 | Eliza Rhyl Davies - 1875 - 302 páginas
...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...belief affecting free will in thinking as well as acting.* Dr. Fraser gave up his profession for no other reason than the loss of his wife, to whom he... | |
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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... 
