 One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.  Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately - Page 1by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men...a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English essays - 1875 - 474 pages
...persons to bo entertained ?—" One of the later schools of the Grecians (says Lord Bacon, Essay I.) is at a stand to think what should be in it that men...advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. I cannot tell why, this same truth ia a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew the masques and... | |
 | Newton Abbot College - 1875 - 354 pages
...reposed. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. This same Truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs, of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelight. No pleasure... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is xviii. Du * Ari«totle, " Ethics," Bk viii. 112 113...may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicious, masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...corrupt, love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men...advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. LORD BACON : Essay /., Of Tnt/ft. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men...lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets,8 nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell: this same... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men...should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, 15 as with poets, nor with advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Poetry - 1876 - 654 pages
...distinguished from, and the opposite of, truth. ' One of the later schools of the Grecians,' said he, ' is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure.a* with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot... | |
 | India - 1880 - 768 pages
...to our brethren in India, with whom we have become so closely associated. RH in. Bacon says : — " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks and mummeries and trinmphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 pages
...when an elderly gentleman of another college came into the room, took up the book, and read aloud, " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth... | |
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