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" Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy, and indisposition,... "
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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Literary Recreations and Miscellanies

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,...
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Philosophical works

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...
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Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Some of the Leading Questions Agitated in the ...

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...
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Whom Shall We Hang?: The Sebastopol Inquiry

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...
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Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 1, Issue 1

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...
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The Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 1

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...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

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,...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

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...
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Faust: A Dramatic Poem, Volume 1

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.]...
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The Englishwoman's domestic magazine. [Imperf. With] Supplemental fashions ...

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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