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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ... - Page 87
by George Walker - 1825 - 615 pages
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Essays moral, economical and political

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the -'-fathers, in great severity, called poesy,...
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Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Volumes 1-2

Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, "...
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Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions: And on Other Subjects

Samuel Bailey - 1821 - 300 pages
...Bacon : " Doth any man doubt," he asks, " that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?" — Essay on Truth. His lordship, however, although he thus strongly pourtrays the disagreeable effects...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 1

1821 - 416 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, fall of melancholy indisposition, and uupleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1824 - 598 pages
...pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,...because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lye. But it is not the lye that passeth through the mind, but the lye that sinketh...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ...

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy," vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleththe imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleththe imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and ..., Volume 1

Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,...
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New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and ..., Volume 1

New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,...
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