 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...  Nugae Literariae: Prose and Verse - Page 139by Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 585 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...Bacon.) " WHAT is Truth," said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for answer. Certainly there are many that delight in giddiness, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. OF Crutfc, 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 that... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 138 pages
...speculative Philosophers of the 16th century, apply to those of the present day : " Certainly," says he, " 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 j and though the sect of philosophers of that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. OF TRUTH. 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 that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...in many rtg»•.<. Crutl). \VHAT 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 that... | |
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...faithful Servant, FR. ST. ALBAN. CrutD. 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 that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TRUTH. 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 that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...ALB AN. ESSAYS. I. OF TROTH. 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 that... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...FRANCIS ST. ALBAN. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is trnth ? 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 that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...VOL. III. ESSAYS. I. OF TRUTH. 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 that... | |
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