| 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 (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 - 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.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...Your grace's most obliged and faithful servant, FRAN. 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
...Grace by 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
...Walter Scott, (credat Gualterus !) that " he would fain IMAGINE he had only one object — TRUTH." " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not...pause for a reply." Is misrepresentation truth ? Is slander truth ? Is pure fiction truth? Is an assumed tone of insolent superiority truth? Is ingratitude... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...and next of your Majesty, to whom on earth I am most bounden. ESSAYS, CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF THUTH. 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... | |
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