 Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's A 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...  Essays moral, economical and political - Side 10af Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 196 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - 1832 - 586 sider
...stately and daintily as candle-light. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of...lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure." It is more grievous that with such examples of Holy Living, and such food for piety in the heart, given... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 230 sider
...stately and daintily as candle* lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. • Doth any man doubt, that... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1833 - 396 sider
...stately and daintily, as candle lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, which sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt,... | |
 | 1833 - 682 sider
...so stately and daintily as candlelight. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, which showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of lies doth ever add pleasure." As sophistry flourishes... | |
 | American education society - 1833 - 418 sider
...so stately and daintily as candlelight Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, which showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of lies doth ever add pleasure." As sophistry flourishes... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 738 sider
...well known words of the same great man. " Truth may perhaps cometo the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights."t * Bacon's Essays. " Truth." , t The same. This tale... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1837 - 316 sider
...stately and daintily, as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 sider
...opulent, tenacious in retaining the opinions which we have formed. Bacon in his " Essay on Truth," says, " If there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations and imaginations, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 sider
...that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like; but it would leave the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 892 sider
...stately andldaintily as candle-lights.} Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearlf that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that... | |
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