 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - Страниц: 578
...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.' ' There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious.' This... | |
 | 1857 - Страниц: 956
...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.'' Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - Страниц: 964
...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,...sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit . . . Pretence to Religion to destroy Religion.... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - Страниц: 300
...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. [VI, 378] This amounts to an expansion of the sentence given under the antitheses on 'Knowledge' in... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - Страниц: 736
...truth, which is the lovemaking or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the praise of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human natures." In books "we converse with the wise, as in action with fools." That is, if we know how to... | |
 | Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - Страниц: 278
...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" (Eacon, Essays I). Finally Locke, who effortlessly mixes all three: "I know there is truth opposite... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - Страниц: 613
...Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. . . . 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. Bacon, who perfected the essay form in English on the French model of Montaigne, used his writing to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - Страниц: 276
...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. The first creature5 of God, in the works of the days,* was the light of the sense; the last was the light of... | |
 | Peter Johannes Thuesen - 2002 - Страниц: 257
...judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making and the wooing of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. 56 Eadie's implication in juxtaposing the two epigraphs might have been boiled down to a syllogism:... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - Страниц: 478
..."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."1 During the Renaissance, most scholars in Europe had thought that all truth about the natural... | |
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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. 
