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... Bacon's Essays: With Annotations - Page 2by Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 588 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1859 - 708 pages
...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...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... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves t One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy...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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 pages
...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...the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Deemonum,'* because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
| 1909 - 378 pages
...the like, but it would 1 Loving. ' The Skeptics. * Latin, windy and rambling. * Restricts. ' Lucian. leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things,...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum [devils'-wine], because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but with the shadow of a... | |
| Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...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...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
...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...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
...taken out of men's minds vain opinions, ftattering hopes, false valuations. imaginations as one would, and the like. 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,... | |
| Thomas Babe - 1989 - 72 pages
...Jimmie's generation *(It is possible that Fast Mail and Smith can be played by the same actor) ***** One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy...daemonum because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that... | |
| John Bryant - 1993 - 331 pages
...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...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
...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...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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