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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... "
Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ... - Page 562
by Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 636 pages
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The School Teacher's Manual: Containing Practical Suggestions on Teaching ...

Henry Dunn - Teaching - 1839 - 238 pages
...opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations, as one would, and the like vinum damonum, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?"' Alas, how true ! How many, in this way, first dupe themselves, and then become the dupes of others...
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Principles of Teaching, Or, The Normal School Manual: Containing Practical ...

Henry Dunn - Teaching - 1839 - 302 pages
...opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations, as one would, and the like vinum damonum, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Alas, how true ! How many in this way, first dupe themselves, and then become the dupes of others...
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Poems: Now First Collected

Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 434 pages
...minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as ' one would,' and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?"— BACON. WHAT wild ambitious schemes The ripen'd man engage ? To love's delusive dreams Succeed the plans...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...vmpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daemonum,"i because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, hut the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 9

Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Is there not benevolence in the wish — it is one in which I am often disposed to indulge — that...
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The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 2

John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - Art - 1843 - 612 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Dœmonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 1" It would now be more to the purpose to inquire, what is likely to be the effect of living in an...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 77

1843 - 594 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Damonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves '.' ' It would now be more to the purpose to enquire, what is likely to be the effect of living in...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 2

1843 - 602 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Damonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 1" It would now be more to the purpose to inquire, what is likely to be the effect of living in an...
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ..., Volumes 5-6

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Swift, with the phraseology of this passage apparently running in his head, goes on to condemn the...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...valuations, imaginations at one i-ould, and the like vinum Dœmonum {as a Father calleth poetry) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?" Л melancholy, a loo general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply,...
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