English Literature

When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, ’though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied? I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man’s work, or His own gifts, who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is kingly. Thousands at His bidding speed, And post o’er land and ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.

01. When was Francis Bacon’s essay ‘Of Truth’ first published? a. 1597 b. 1612 c. 1625 d. 1630 Answer: c. 1625 02. In which edition of Bacon’s essay ‘Of Truth’ appeared? a. 1st edition b. 2nd edition c. 3rd edition d. 4th edition Answer: c. 3rd edition 03. The writing style of Francis Bacon in ‘Of Truth’ is a. Double style b. Public style c. Middle style d. Aphoristic style Answer: d. Aphoristic style 04. Francis Bacon’s ‘Of Truth’ is: a. A poem b. An essay c. A novel d. A story Answer: b. An essay 05. ‘Of truth’ is Bacon's great work of prose which shows: a. His keen observation of human beings b. His keen observation of animals c. His keen observation of birds d. His keen observation of environment Answer: a. His keen observation of human beings 06. Francis Bacon’s essay ‘Of Truth’ begins with which one of the following expression? a. What is Nature? b. What is Idea? c. What is Truth? d. What is God? Answer: c. What is Truth? 07. Who said, ‘What is Truth?’ in Bacon’s essa...

Of Truth: Francis Bacon 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. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out of truth- nor, again, that, when it is found, it imposeth upon men’s thoughts- that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural, though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie’s sake. But I cannot tell: this same truth is a naked and open daylig...

Francis Bacon: Multiple Type Questions with Answers - 05 01. Who is known as the father of English essay? a. Francis Bacon b. Joseph Addison c. A.G. Gardiner d. Charles Lamb Answer: a. Francis Bacon 02. Who has been called the father of empiricism? a. William Hazlitt b. Francis Bacon c. Charles Lamb d. Joseph Addison Answer: b. Francis Bacon 03. Who called Francis Bacon ‘the grand architect’? a. E.O. Wilson b. Thomas Hobbes c. John Locke d. Dr. Johnson Answer: a. E.O. Wilson 04. ‘Bacon is the first English essayist.’ Whose is this statement? a. Dr. Johnson b. Hudson c. Hugh Walker d. John Locke Answer: c. Hugh Walker 05. ‘Francis Bacon’s essays are loaded with ripest wisdom of experience.’ Whose is this statement? a. Dr. Johnson b. Hudson c. Hugh Walker d. John Locke Answer: b. Hudson 06. ‘The wisest, the brightest and the meanest of mankind.’ Whose statement is this about Francis Bacon? a. John Dryden b. Dr. Johnson c. Alexander Pope d. Arnold Answer: c. Alexander Pope 07...

01. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell 02. If you're certain, you're certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty. - Bertrand Russell 03. It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. - Bertrand Russell 04. It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. - Bertrand Russell 05. Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty –a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. - Bertrand Russell 06. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell 07. Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. - Bertrand Russell 08. Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. - Be...