 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 1by Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1842 - 740 pages
...Scepticism, which reminds us of a transcendantly glorious passage in one of Foster's Essays: — " ' Certainly there be that delight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief.' This trite quotation from the first of Bacon's beautiful and compendious Essays, describes a not uncommon... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1849 - 458 pages
...of sceptical criticism must be abhorred. LOBD BACON'S adage is, alas, too often verified : " Certain there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief : " for in the discursive reading which we have found necessary for illustrating CALVIN'S EZEKIEL,... | |
 | 1854 - 696 pages
..." WHAT is TRUTH V — Bacon begins hi« "Essay of Truth "(which is dated 1625) with these words : " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainlv, there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...upon scattered counsels, for they will rather distract and mislead than settle and direct. Of Truth. What is Truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not...belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing... | |
 | John Kentish - 1846 - 444 pages
...question sufficiently declares the annotator's opinion of the spirit in which the inquiry was made. "' What is Truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." I doubt the correctness of this comment. That raillery and banter were now expressed by Pilate, we... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...Laudowne Collection, No. 105, ft. 317. • Harlelan, vol. ii. p. 190. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is truth 1 said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer....philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursive wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in... | |
 | 1893 - 688 pages
...things." Yes, bat their principal stubbornness is most seen when any attempt is made to get them verified. "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. He might in oar enlightened day have asked, " What is a fact ? " and have stayed long enough without... | |
 | 1941 - 436 pages
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