The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

ISBN-13: 9781512152036 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 100 str.

Francis Bacon

Opis

WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients.