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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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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...ever add pleasure. Doth arfy man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...would, and the like, but it would leave the minds ' CogitatioHum vertiyine. * ingenia quadam ventota et dÎKurtantia. * пес уча ex eâ inventa...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 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,3 in great severity, 1 Job. xviii. 38. - Probably he means the Sceptics. ' Perhaps he was thinking...
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Vermont School Journal and Family Visitor, Volumes 1-2

1859 - 708 pages
...make it a hobby. EPS 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 unplensing hi themselves? — Bacon. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 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...Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But...
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The Quarterly Magazine of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, Manchester Unity

1860 - 544 pages
...were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations asoné would, and the like, but it would leave the minds...and indisposition ; and unpleasing to themselves. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. It is not...
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A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 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 ?" Swift, with the phraseology of this passage apparently runnjng in his head, goes on to condemn the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 109

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1861 - 630 pages
...pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? ' So says Lord Bacon ; and few aphorisms in prose or verse are more popular than Gray's ' Where ignorance...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 44

William B. Dana - 1861 - 798 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Daemonium, (as a father calls poetry,) that it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves i"j Fourier does not seem to have been at all conversant either with the grand sentiiiiunt ot' Pope...
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The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Volume 1

Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " * A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does...
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The National Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1863 - 436 pages
...men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would (at pleasure) and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number...full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing (unpleasant) to themselves." " Truly, the minds of many would present the appearance of dry and shrivelled...
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