| John Horne Tooke - English language - 1807 - 506 pages
...borne, and for to declare " to the worlde that who soo be of TROUTH wyll ( a ) See John xviii. 38. " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate; " and would not stay for an answer." Bacon's Essays. ( b ) Nichodemus was the patron apostle of our ancestors the Anglo-Saxons and their... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...Your Grace's most obliged And faithful servant, FR. ST. ALBAN. 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...„. Vicissitude of Things 258 If & A Fragment of an Essay on Fame 268 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...lead your Grace by the hand. Your Grace's most obliged and 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... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration. " ~~* had been 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... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...Grace by the hand. Your Grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS ST. ALBAN. 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...1625. Your grace't most obliged and Jhithftd servant, FHAN! ST. ALBAN. ESSAYS 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...the hand. t Your Grace's rnoft obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS ST. 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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...into action : " the King can do no wrong " ; therefore men shall call right all that he does.'* ' " What is truth ? " said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' What has truth to do with it ? was the thought, expressed or not, of the men who cowered before Henry... | |
| James Browne, John Macculloch - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1825 - 316 pages
...wishes" And he tells us, or, to speak more correctly, he tells Sir Walter Scott, (credat Gualterus !) that " he would fain IMAGINE he had only one object...and consider as truth, any unsubstantiated dictum which the Doctor may choose to utter ex cathedra, solely because it is he who delivers it ? When he... | |
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