 But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only...  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political ... - Page 12by Francis Bacon - 1822 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum [devil'swine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow...itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dœmonum [devil'swine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow...itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which ia the presence of it, and the belief of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pages
...fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passcth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt, such as... | |
 | 1858 - 894 pages
...at length, an intellectual and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon s;iid, " truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing, of it, — the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, — and the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...thinking of S. Augustine. Yid. Aug. Confess. i. 25, 26. called poesy, vinum damonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow...it that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before, j But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...themselves t One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the He that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow...itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of... | |
 | 1860 - 544 pages
...themselves. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and eettleth in it, that doth the hurt. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments... | |
 | William Russell - 1860 - 170 pages
...at length, an intellectual and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon said, " truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing, of it,—the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it,—and the belief... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...forward, bustling and swelling, and aptly compared to a puddle in a storm. OF TRUTH. — (BACON.1) TRUTH, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it — the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it — and the belief... | |
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