 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 頁
...in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free will in thinking, as well as in acting : and though the sects of philosophers of that...in finding out of truth ; nor again, that, when it ia found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favour; but a natural though corrupt... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 頁
...in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free will in thinking, as well as in acting : and though the sects of philosophers of that...be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancient*. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out of truth ; nor... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1830 - 68 頁
...affecting free will in thinking as well as in acting : and though the sects of philosophers of that kind ba gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which...veins, though there be not so much blood in them as those of the ancients."— BACON. Essays Civ. and Mar. I. lLonlron : "PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, STRAND.... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - 1832 - 584 頁
...much melancholy truth in Lord Bacon's account of the matter. "It is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth ; nor again...imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor ; but a natural, though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the latter schools of the Grecians... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 頁
...in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free will in thinking, as well as in acting : and though the sects of philosophers of that...the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and iabour which men take in finding out of truth ; nor again, that, when it is found, it imposeth upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 頁
...in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remains certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1883 - 408 頁
...whose minds (as Lord Bacon happily expressed it) " the mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure." " It is not only the difficulty and labour which men...when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts, lhat doth bring lies in favour; but a naturall, though corrupt love of the lie itself." But such as... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1843 - 578 頁
...opinion ; even without going the length of Lord Bacon's assertion, " that it is not only the ditticuhy and labour which men take in finding out of truth; nor again, thai, when it is found, it itnposeth upon men's thoughts that doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 頁
...in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that...wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not s» much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 頁
...ta much hlood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it ia not only the difficulty and lahour which men take in finding out of Truth; nor again, that when it is found, it imposed upon men's thoughts, that doth hring lies in favour; hut a natural, though corrupt, love of... | |
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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 in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of... 
