 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 páginas
...SECT. I. VALUE OF TRUTH. " TRUTH," says Lord Bacon, " which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of truth which is the love-making or wooing...presence of it, and the belief of truth which is the enjoyment of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." * This, then, is the end which the mind should... | |
 | Horae - 1851 - 414 páginas
...diflatisfaction, emptinefs of fpirit, and a bitter curfe. — JEREMY TAYLOR. M Love of Truth. ? HE enquiry after TRUTH, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of Truth, the preference of it ; and the belief of Truth, the enjoying of it, is the fovereign good of human... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 páginas
...Men's depraved Judgements, and Affedtions; yet Truth, which only doth judge itfelf, teacheth, that the Inquiry of Truth, which is the Love-making, or Wooing of it ; the Knowledge of Truth, which is the Prefence of it ; and the Belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the Sovereign Good of human... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 páginas
...and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, wh oh is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge...the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the ore knew not how to dictate." * would come with...regard of the rareness of circumstance, that I fin ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 páginas
...aspiration of manhood ; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence...the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. MAGICIANS AND WITCH FOLK. "FASCINATION," saith Henry Cornelius... | |
 | James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 330 páginas
...rest in Providence, unless it turn upon the poles of truth. u The inquiry of truth," says Bacon, u which is the love-making or wooing of it — the knowledge...and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God in the work of days was the light... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 páginas
...depraved judgements and affections, yet Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the enquiry of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it,...the presence of it, and the belief of Truth, which G is the enjoying of it, is the soverein Good of human nature." But, says Mr Trower, " is Divine Truth... | |
 | 1855 - 446 páginas
...coincide with each other." Says Lord Bacon, " The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence...the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of our nature."8 Religious fidelity will also enlist a man against prominent... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 páginas
...extract or two from some of his Essays. — The following are his remarks on the subject of truth. " The knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it...the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was 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. 
