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,... The Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon ... Ed., with an ... - Page 40by Francis Bacon - 1900 - 275 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy rinum dtzmonum, because itfilleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...the masques and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of...number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " It is because ordinary human nature answers so well... | |
| George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy .^nd indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 812 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...would, and the like, but it would leave the minds 1 Cogitatimum vertigine. * inytnia quadam ventota ct ditcuriantia. * KM qua t* t& ia 1 1 Hi -i cogitaiionibtu... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,1 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of... | |
| Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...surreptitiously converted into that of truth as occasional lying - day-to-day misrepresentation of facts: Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? [VI, 377] The observation that unrelenting truthfulness in appraisal of a man's situation would produce... | |
| Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? 95 Nor is it Gibbon's in his description of the monastic saints: The favourites of Heaven were accustomed... | |
| Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 pages
...pleasure. Doth any man doubl. that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, ftattering hopes, false valuations. imaginations as one would,...but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shranken things. full of melancholy and indisposiiion, and anplrasing to themselves? —Francis Bacon,... | |
| John Bryant - 1993 - 331 pages
...pleasure," and that an occasional lie, rather than impeding consciousness, smooths its flow. He writes: Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves. 8 We are shrunken things without our "imaginations," but in confusing "false valuations" with true,... | |
| John Arundel Barnes - 1994 - 222 pages
...of Lilliput and Brobdingnag and seem to confirm Francis Bacon's (1861a:377-378) rhetorical question: Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? Bok (1978:18) points to an acceptable intermediate state of affairs when she asserts that 'some level... | |
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