 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,...  The English Journal of Education - Page 3621852Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, 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, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...valuations, imaginations at one would, and ihe kit viniim Daemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) bot n rors ! Now run down and stared at By Forms so hideous that the full of melancholy and indispcmucn and unpleasing to themselves Г* A melancholy, a too general, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. tle, is nothing less than to give contentment to * ...opinions, which are commonly framed only upon common a I>oor shrunken things ; full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 452 pages
...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, and imaginations, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor, shrunken things, full of melancholy... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 pages
...world half so 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...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — But howsoever these things... | |
 | 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...minds of a number of men, " poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and in* 6015, 6026. This statement is disproved by the returns under the hand of... | |
 | 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
...diamond or carbuncle, 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...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers,1 in great severity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, 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...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing2 to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity,... | |
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