 | 1862 - 492 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. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn... | |
 | William Blake - Literary Collections - 1966 - 964 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...work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit . . . Pretence to Religion to destroy Religion. , To pass from theological and philosophical truth... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 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. [VI, 378] This amounts to an expansion of the sentence given under the antitheses on 'Knowledge' in... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...is the lovemaking or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the praise of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human natures." In books "we converse with the wise, as in action with fools." That is, if we know how to... | |
 | Richard Langton Gregory - History - 1994 - 290 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. REFERENCES Bacon, Francis (1620) The New Organon. Fulton H. Anderson (1960) (ed.) (New York: Macmillan/Library... | |
 | Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - Fiction - 1994 - 278 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" (Eacon, Essays I). Finally Locke, who effortlessly mixes all three: "I know there is truth opposite... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...would not stay for an answer. . . . 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. Bacon, who perfected the essay form in English on the French model of Montaigne, used his writing to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...the lovemaking 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. The first creature5 of God, in the works of the days,* was the light of the sense; the last was the light of... | |
 | Peter Johannes Thuesen - History - 2002 - 257 pages
...itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making and the wooing of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. 56 Eadie's implication in juxtaposing the two epigraphs might have been boiled down to a syllogism:... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...it; is the Soveraigne Good of humane Nature. The first Creature of God, in the workes of the Dayes, was the Light of the Sense; The last, was the Light of Reason; And his Sabbath Worke, ever since, [B2V] is the | Illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed Light, 46 upon the... | |
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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. 
