| Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 pages
...stately and daintily as candle-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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgements and affections, yet Truth, which... | |
| Sir Peter B. Maxwell - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1855 - 328 pages
...infirmities which beset ordinary human nature. " Doth any man doubt," Lord Bacon has well asked, " that if there were taken out of " men's minds vain...men, " poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and in* 6015, 6026. This statement is disproved by the returns under the hand of the principal medical... | |
| 1855 - 250 pages
...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations asone would, and the like, but it would leave the minds...of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and inImagination necessary for an historian. 153 disposition, and unpleasant to themselves ?"* — humiliating... | |
| India - 1855 - 864 pages
...quality, — as the impressive sequel of the above quotation proves. " Doth any man doubt," he asks, " that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations asone would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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,...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers,1 in great severity, called poesy " vinum doemonum," 2 because it filleth the imagination,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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,...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing2 to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum daemonum,'3... | |
| 1008 pages
...taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, imaginations u one wonld, and the like, bat it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and nnpleasing to themselves?" This mast be oar defence; and those who do not approve of our conduct in... | |
| William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...men's minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...lights. A mixture cf. lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken from men's minds 'vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Dsemonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor... | |
| George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 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...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy rinum dtzmonum, because itfilleth the imagination,... | |
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