 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...venfota et discursantiu. 9 nee qua: ex tu inventn cogltationibut imponitur capticitas. 378 OF TRUTH. of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum [devil'swine], because it filleth... | |
 | Education - 1859 - 708 pages
...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...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...crooked courses are the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to bo found false and perfidious : and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason... | |
 | Literature - 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,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum [devils'-wine], because it filleth... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Biography & Autobiography - 1974 - 300 pages
...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...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 - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 pages
...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...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 - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 229 pages
...were 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,... | |
 | John Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 331 pages
...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...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 - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 222 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? Bok (1978:18) points to an acceptable intermediate state of affairs when she asserts that 'some level... | |
 | Jonathan Goldberg - History - 1994 - 404 pages
...were taken out of man's minds vain opinions, flattering hope, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?" For the Bacon of the Essays, since truth is expressed through lies and "doth judge itself," it is never... | |
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A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. 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... 
