 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 588 pages
...moral philosophers avowedly infidel, and professionally the reverse, pouring equal contempt upon the the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief or the truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature." BAcON'S ESSAYS.... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...affections ; yet truth, which only judges itself, teaches, that the enquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, aud the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...affections, yet truth which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth,...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 light... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth,...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...affections; yet Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of Truth,...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 - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...affections ; yet Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of Truth,...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 light... | |
 | Phrenology - 1848 - 396 pages
...before, the principles of the " inspired philosopher" of Upsal. "The inquiry after truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth,...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 truth... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth,...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 - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that 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 l>elief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...yet truth which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is...presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoymg of it; is the sovereign good of human nature. Th'e first creature of God, in the works of the... | |
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... the inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking, 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. 
