 One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.  Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr - Page 1by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874Full view - About this book
 | James Amiraux Jeremie - 1826 - 104 pages
...influence of natural Aversion to Danger? 34 This natural feeling has been observed by the great Bacon: " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights....A mixture of a lie doth ever... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 408 pages
...favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what...truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 pages
...favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what...love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as wilh poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what...love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as wilh poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what...love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as wilh poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...favour ; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what...love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as wilh poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1829
...when an elderly gentleman of another college came into the room, took up the book, and redd aloud, " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...for sweetness, or pleasure of t»ste, and therefore »11 your dainty plumbs arc a little dry. Bacon. ed, because it was not obtained, or pretended to be obtaine masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelight. Id. My... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - 1832 - 584 pages
...favor ; but a natural, though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the latter schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what...truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-light.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 216 pages
...favour ; but a natural, though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what...truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the • 8 OP TRCTK. world, half so stately and daintily... | |
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