| john forbes - 1846 - 626 pages
...persons to whom the words of Bacon are applicable who will fear the light of truth : ' 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, and unpleasiug to themselves ' " Nothing can be more injurious to the true interest of medicine than... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...carhuncle, thal showeth hest in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ew add pleasure. Doth any man douht, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like; hut it would leave the minds of a numher of men, poor shrunken thingsfull of melancholy and indisposition,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 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...false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the likt, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and... | |
| Electronic journals - 1858 - 682 pages
...send a few additional Notes : — I. "A mixture of a Lie doth ever add Pleasure. Doth any roan doubt, that if there were taken out of Men's minds vain Opinions,...and Indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called Poesy, Vinmn Daimonum • because it filleth the Imagination,... | |
| John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 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 " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination,... | |
| Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, falfe valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like,...it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor fhrunken things, full of melancholy and indifpofition, and unpleafing to themfelves ? " * A melancholy,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth /an"ymïm doubt, ther, in the inferring and deriving of doctrine and direction thereupon. The Use valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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, " vinum daBmonum, " because it filleth the imagination,... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1851 - 342 pages
...false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Daemonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " — (Lord Bacon, quoted in The Friend, vol. i., p. 9.) 8. That, old gentlemen, is your duty.] —... | |
| Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 pages
...those conclusions fairly warrant ? Can it be doubted, on the contrary, that, as Lord Bacon says, " If there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and the like, it would leave the minds of most men poor, shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition,... | |
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