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" 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 2
by Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 588 pages
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Vermont School Journal and Family Visitor, Volumes 1-2

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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

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...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy

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...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

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...
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Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse

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...
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Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose

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...
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Terms of Response: Language and the Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth ...

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,...
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Demon Wine

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...
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Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance

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,...
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A Pack of Lies: Towards a Sociology of Lying

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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