...pleasure eiribased by no appendant sting.' — South. 4 Essais, liv. ii. chap, xviii. ANNOTATIONS. ' ' What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.' Any one of Bacon's acuteness, or of a quarter of it, might easily have perceived, had he at all attended...

...FRAGMENT OF AN ESSAY ON FAME 572 THE PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE 576 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' T T7HAT is truth ?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting1 free-will in thinking, as well as in actiug — and, though the sects of philosophers...

...Judicature. 57. Of Anger. 58. Of Vicissitude of Things. DB 4 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL. I. OF TRUTH. WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and...for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness1, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in...

...more." It is hardly necessary to point out the coincidence with the commencement of Bacon's Essay on Truth : — " What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." Donne's Sermon was preached Feb. 16, 1620. I suppose there can be Jittle doubt he had Bacon's phrase...

...love is easy, if we once will it shall be done. We will return to Lord Bacon, for some passages on "Truth." " ' What is truth ? ' said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for »n answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting...

...451 466 469 472 612 619 523 686 641 549 658 564 570 574 BACON'S ESSAYS. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. ' \VTHAT is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting1 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting — and, though the sects of philosophers...

...waiting for some passing gust or floating zephyr to send them adrift. We will give a few specimens: "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." (This, the poet Cowper has finely used in his " Task.") " There is no vice that doth so cover a mail...

...light arms in a skirmish. There is a world of meaning in the opening sentence of Lord Bacon's essay " Of Truth." "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate;...answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness," — a statement which we cordially recommend to the careful consideration of various metropolitan friends....

...it, which we do not find given in those of the wars of our time. ' Certainly/ says Bacon, in one of ' there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief;' and a writer who thus quotes him, says, ' Scepticism of all truth and certainty is not unfrequently...

...and reverend authority, than Lord Bacon. " Certainly there be," he says in his first Essay, " that count it a bondage to fix a belief — affecting free-will in thinking, as well as iu acting,— and, though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain discoursing...