 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...that showeth best in varied lights. 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,...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Daemons," because it filleth the imagination,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...that showeth best in varied lights. 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,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 1 One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Dasmons," because it filleth the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...that sheweth best in varied lights. 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,...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the -'-fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...A mixture of a lye doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of mens minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemontim ; because it fiUeth the imagination,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, "... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1821 - 300 pages
...* ; yet it * On this point every one will agree with Lord Bacon : " Doth any man doubt," he asks, " that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?" — Essay on Truth. His lordship, however, although he thus strongly pourtrays the disagreeable effects... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...that sheweth best in varied lights. 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,...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, fall of melancholy indisposition, and uupleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemonum ; because it filleth the imagination,... | |
 | Harrison Gray Otis - Hartford Convention - 1824 - 126 pages
...Bacon says, "the mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure;" and whose minds, "if there were "taken out, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false "valuations, imaginations as one would, and the "like, would be left poor, shrunken things." They love fiction, which his lordship calls "Vinum Dsemonum."... | |
 | Harrison Gray Otis - Hartford Convention - 1824 - 120 pages
...Bacon says, "the mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure;" and whose minds, "if there were "taken out, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false "valuations, imaginations as one would, and the "like, would be left poor, shrunken things." They love fiction, which his lordship calls "Vinum Dsemonum."... | |
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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 indisposition,... 
