| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 pages
...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and imaginations, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " This admitted tendency of our nature — this love of the pleasing intoxication of unveracity,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, both of great weight: the one to correct the partiality...opinions, which are commonly framed only upon common a I>oor shrunken things ; full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of... | |
| Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgements and affections, yet Truth, which... | |
| Sir Peter Benson Maxwell - 1855 - 328 pages
...man doubt," Lord Bacon has well asked, " that if there were taken out of " men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false " valuations, imaginations...men, " poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and in* 6015, 6026. This statement is disproved by the returns under the hand of the principal medical... | |
| 1855 - 864 pages
...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations asone would, and the like, but it would leave the minds...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasant to themselves ?"* — humiliating certainly, but not the less true ! A strict adhesion to... | |
| 1855 - 250 pages
...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations asone would, and the like, but it would leave the minds...of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and inImagination necessary for an historian. 153 disposition, and unpleasant to themselves ?"* — humiliating... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 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...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers,1 in great severity, called poesy " vinum doemonum," 2 because it filleth the imagination,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 564 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...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing2 to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum daemonum,'3... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Dsemonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" — (Lord Bacon, quoted in The Friend, vol. i., p. 9.) 8. That, old • gentlemen, is your duty.]... | |
| 1008 pages
...taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, imaginations u one wonld, and the like, bat it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and nnpleasing to themselves?" This mast be oar defence; and those who do not approve of our conduct in... | |
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