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
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 sider
...stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showcth 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... | |
 | 1860 - 544 sider
...stately and dantily 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 beet in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that... | |
 | William B. Dana - 1861 - 798 sider
...soul to comprehend the profound language of Bacon, a true master of the human soul, "A mixture of lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, nattering hopos, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the... | |
 | 1862 - 838 sider
...and rebellious under it, we may go free, but it is the freedom of Phaeton in the fable of the poets. there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would (at pleasure) and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor, shrunken tilings,... | |
 | Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 sider
...stately and, daintily 4 as candlelights. 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 i Affect. To aim at ; endearour after. ' This proud man affects imperial sway.' — Dryden. * Diaconreing.... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1866 - 118 sider
...exhibit, where meanness prevails, malice incites, and passion governs. Well might Bacon exclaim — ' Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things ?'f The wise rule... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 416 sider
...from a profound knowledge of human nature that Lord Bacon, in discoursing upon truth, remarked that a mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. "Doth any man doubt," he asks, " that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 sider
...things. And / shall always think truth and duty the most beautiful words in the world." Pp. 186,186. 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. [7] Doth any man doubt, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 784 sider
...exceeded in that his leg was daintily formed.' — Walton. price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,1 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of... | |
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