 ... 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 British Prose Writers - Стр. 81821Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1846 - Страниц: 70
...FOR EMBRACING THE DOCTRINES AND DISCLOSURES or EMANUEL SWEDENBORG. " The inquiry of Truth, which it the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of...enjoying of it ; is the Sovereign Good of human nature." " Bacon. BY GEORGE BUSH. NEW-YORK: JOHN ALLEN, 139 NASSAU STREET. BOSTON: OTIS CLAPP. IS SCHOOL STREET.... | |
 | James Esdaile - 1846 - Страниц: 362
...that they will be richly rewarded. To encourage them, I would remind them in the words of Bacon, " that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enu 4 joying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature;" and that this highest gratification of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Страниц: 732
...thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheti that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the helief of truth, which is the enjoying Tlf it, is the sovereign * The wine of devils. (The'translations... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Страниц: 778
...extracts from the Essays are the same as in the edition, with notes, by Dr. WC Taylor, 8vo., Lend. 1840.) good of human nature. The first creature of God in the works of the days was the light of I ho sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath-work ever since is the illumination... | |
 | 1847 - Страниц: 624
...him in his new occupation.* He should remember the words of Bacon, whose life he has written,— " That the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making,...enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature." To which I will add, in the words of Dr. Esdaile,— " That this highest gratification of humanity... | |
 | 1880 - Страниц: 492
...faithfulness" — the word is truth in the Septuagint — " the girdle of His reins." Lord Bacon says that " the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature." How few of us even when we do not speak lies are true in act and to ourselves ! Is not this the case... | |
 | James Esdaile - 1847 - Страниц: 290
...that they will be richly rewarded. To encourage them, I would remind them in the words of Bacon, " that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making...enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature ;" and that this highest gratification of humanity can only be attained by carefully training and exercising... | |
 | Emma Newton - 1847 - Страниц: 230
...itself is its own witness ;' and ' The enquiry of truth which is the love-making or wooing of it, and the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it,...enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.' For myself, I see so much of holiness and beauty, in the religion of the New Testament, that did I... | |
 | George Jabet - 1848 - Страниц: 284
...from the philosopher of the Academy in his appreciation of pure truth. " Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of Truth, which...of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The poet saith excellently well : ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - Страниц: 372
...these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which...the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human uature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last... | |
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