 | 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
...differ at all from the philosopher of the Academy in his appreciation of pure truth. " Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...enjoying 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - Страниц: 372
...before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...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... | |
 | 1850 - Страниц: 656
...promise 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... | |
 | 1849 - Страниц: 1428
...the Essay " Of Truth," he says : " Yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the enquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence < f it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoyment of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.... | |
 | George Harris - 1849 - Страниц: 540
...matured inclinations. ON TRUTH. THE inquiry of truth, which is the wooing of it ; the knowledge °f truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoyment; is the sovereign good of human nature. — Lord Bacon. READINGS WITH THE EARLY METHODISTS.... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - Страниц: 284
...occupation and pleasure of Adam in Paradise. The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the helief of truth, which is the enjoying it, is the sovereign good of our nature. " The pleasure and... | |
 | 1850 - Страниц: 544
...who honour our " NOTES AND QUERIES" with their correspondence, hold with Bacon, that " Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry...of it — is the sovereign good of human nature." We believe that it is under the impulse of such feelings that they have flocked to our columns —... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - Страниц: 892
...before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments anil a/TrclioiM, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry...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... | |
 | 1850 - Страниц: 1042
...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... | |
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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. 
