 ... 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 Christian Advocate - Page 2451825Full view - About this book
 | James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 330 lehte
...rest in Providence, unless it turn upon the poles of truth. u The inquiry of truth," says Bacon, u which is the love-making or wooing of it — the knowledge...of human nature. The first creature of God in the work of days was the light of sense; the last was the light of reason, and His Sabbath-work ever since... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 lehte
...extract or two from some of his Essays. — The following are his remarks on the subject of truth. " The knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it...of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination... | |
 | 1855 - 446 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that...of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 lehte
...spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that...of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; 8 the last was the light of reason ; * and his 1 Perhaps he was thinking of St. Augustine.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 lehte
...doth judge 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 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 600 lehte
...history to favour them. With regard to the seventh day, space only allows me to point to the solntion. " The first creature of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 880 lehte
...at length, an intellectual and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon said, " truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that...of it, — is the sovereign good of human nature." Guided by his own unassisted reflective reason, man does unquestionably attain to great results, both... | |
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