 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign...the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; 8 the last was the light of reason ; * and his 1 Perhaps he was thinking of St. Augustine. — See... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...love-making or wooing of it — the knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it — and the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature.' ESSAY II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear... | |
 | Religion - 1857 - 998 pages
...knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; arid the belief of truth, which is the enjoyment of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The...of GOD, in the works of the days, was the light of sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and His Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of His... | |
 | Psychiatry - 1857 - 652 pages
...the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. 2. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind so weak but it mates * and masters... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1857 - 880 pages
...love-making, or wooing, of it, — the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, — and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature." Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
 | Education - 1857 - 956 pages
...love-making, or wooing, of it, — the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, — and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature.'' Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 190 pages
...is the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it — is THE SOVEREIGN GOOD OF HUMAN NATURE." But what is the practical use ? Let Schlegel answer : — " The admiration of Shakespeare remained... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pages
...love-making, or wooing of it — the k nowledge of truth, which is the presence of it — and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature." — FRANCIS BACON. SHAOSPEAEE NOT AN IMPOSTOR CHAPTER I. THB NATURE OF THE CHARGE. "Then what do those... | |
 | Universalism - 1857 - 444 pages
...the love-making and wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." But truth is not only divine, it is also enduring. Only that which is pervaded by it abides the lapse... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Love-making or Wooing of it ; the Knowledge of Truth, which is the Prefence of it ; and the Belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the Sovereign Good of human Nature. s The allufion is probably to S. Jerome, in Epiflol. who lays, " Daemonem cibus eft carmina Poetarum,"... | |
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... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. 
