 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
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...put into the mouth of the hero. "P. 6. Much falsehood and a spark of truth. — " I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pages
...favor ; 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...that doth not shew the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...natural, though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examiueth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should...truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily4 as candle-lights.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools 2 of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what...neither they make for pleasure, as with poets ; nor 1 He refers to the following passage in the Gospel of St. John, xviii. 38: " Pilate saith unto him,... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1856 - 386 pages
...thoughts, that doth bring lies in favour, but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. — The same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. — BACON,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...are put into the mouth of the hero. 7. Much falsehood and a spark of truth.] — "I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as... | |
 | 1856 - 824 pages
...Ruskin tell us, as Bacon told our fathers, that we have " a corrupt love of the lie itself," that " this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-light."... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...favour; but a natural, though corrupt love of the lie i itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the " matter, and is at a stand to think...truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily4 as candle-lights.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 812 pages
...favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what...; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this game truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 874 pages
...distinguished from, and the opposite of, truth. " One of the later schools of the Grecians," said he, " is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where ncither they make for pleasure, as with p<xts, nor for advantage, as with the mereJiant ; but for the... | |
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