 ... 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.  The Churchman's companion - Sida 2841880Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1855 - 446 sidor
...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...which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of our nature."8 Religious fidelity will also enlist a man against prominent social abuses, such as intemperance... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 sidor
...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 sidor
...thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking,...enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 sidor
...thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making,...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first Creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; 8 the last was the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 sidor
...itself,' and, ' howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections, it teacheth that the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making...of it — is the sovereign good of human nature.' ESSAY II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 sidor
...doctrines is in no way compromised by any position assumed in regard to Mesmerism. » " The inquiry after truth, which is the lovemaking or wooing of it; the...the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it," Lord Bacon says, " is the sovereign good of human nature." There was never a more sincere lover of... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 880 sidor
...Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon said, " truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making,...of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature." Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
 | 1857 - 956 sidor
...uncertainty, — suffers, at length, an intellectual and moral wreck. only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making,...of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature.'' Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 sidor
...itself,' and, ' howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections, it teacheth that the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making...of it — is the sovereign good of human nature.' ' There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious.' This... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 sidor
...thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making,...it — is the sovereign good of human nature."— FKAXCIS BACON. SHAKESPEAEE NOT AN IMPOSTOR. CHAPTER I. THE NATURE OF THE CHARGE. " Then what do those... | |
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