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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. The references are to the following editions: Bacon, History of Henry VII, and Apophthegms in Bonn's Library, Moral and Historical Works of Bacon, I vol. Shakespeare, Globe edition. Macaulay, Essays, People's edition, 2 vols. Plutarch, Lives, Langhorne's Translation, i vol. ESSAY I. OF TRUTH. P. 1,1. 1. In this Essay Bacon uses the word 'Truth' to signify two distinct things, viz.? (1) correctness of thought, the correspondence between facts and our opinions about them: (2) truthfulness, integrity of conduct, 'the truth of civil business, ' 1. 63. jesting Pilate. See John xviii. 38. Pilate may have asked the question seriously, expecting an answer, or rhetorically, not expecting an answer. But he was certainly in no jesting mooA at the time. 5. seels, the Sceptics, who denied the possibility of knowledge. Pyrrho of Elis (fl. B.C. 340?300) was regarded as the founder of this school of philosophy. 6. wits. The word wit, from the root ofwitan, 'to know, ' signified (i) the knowing mind, the intellect, (2) what the mind knows, knowledge, (3) men of knowledge, ingenious writers. The first meaning was narrowed to indicate a particular faculty of the mind, viz. (4) Imagination, and hence (5) the perception of analogies, pleasing or quaint.See Pope's Euay on Criticism, Introd. 6, pp. 48?51 (Pitt Press Series). 12. One of the later sehoole, Lncian, Philopseudes, 1. P. 2, . 19. masques, triumphs. See note to Ess. 37, i, p. 114- mummeries. A mummer was one who played as a masked buffoon (from mummc, 'a mask'): mummery signified (i) 'a performance of mummers, ' (t) 'a farcical show.' 20. stately, used as adverb: cf. Ess. 46, 6. 24. of a lie, i.e. of fiction or error. In this sense the word was often in Johnson's mouth. 'Johnson had accustomed...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217443029 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217443028 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $20.21 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 164 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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