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" 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 362
1852
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 6

Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...would, and the like, but it would leave the minds i Cogitalicnam rertigins. * inslenia qutedam venfota et discursantiu. 9 nee qua: ex tu inventn cogltationibut...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth arfy man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds...would, and the like, but it would leave the minds ' CogitatioHum vertiyine. * ingenia quadam ventota et dÎKurtantia. * пес уча ex eâ inventa...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 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...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy, and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers,3 in great...
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Vermont School Journal and Family Visitor, Volumes 1-2

Education - 1859 - 708 pages
...and ho\v they differ. A good teacher will neither despise object-teaching. nor make it a hobby. EPS Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, kilse valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

Literature - 1909 - 378 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...imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would 1 Loving. ' The Skeptics. * Latin, windy and rambling. * Restricts. ' Lucian. leave the minds of a...
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Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse

Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...surreptitiously converted into that of truth as occasional lying - day-to-day misrepresentation of facts: 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? [VI, 377] The observation that...
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Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose

Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 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? 95 Nor is it Gibbon's in his description...
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Terms of Response: Language and the Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth ...

Robert L. Montgomery - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 229 pages
...pleasure. Doth any man doubl. that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, ftattering hopes, false valuations. imaginations as one would,...but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shranken things. full of melancholy and indisposiiion, and anplrasing to themselves? —Francis Bacon,...
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Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance

John Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 331 pages
...pleasure," and that an occasional lie, rather than impeding consciousness, smooths its flow. He writes: 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. 8 We are shrunken things without...
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A Pack of Lies: Towards a Sociology of Lying

John Arundel Barnes - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 222 pages
...of Lilliput and Brobdingnag and seem to confirm Francis Bacon's (1861a:377-378) rhetorical question: 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? Bok (1978:18) points to an acceptable...
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