 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 562by Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 636 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum daemonum ; because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lye. But it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 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...the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemmum [devil's-wine], • because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but with the shadow of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...turn upon the poles of Truth. hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, 18 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy 'vt'num dcemonum,'™ because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, 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 ? ' So says Lord Bacon ; and few aphorisms in prose or verse are more popular than Gray's ' Where ignorance... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,13 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy 'vinum damonum,'™ because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 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...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One 30 of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum d<zmonum, because it filleth the imagination,... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1880 - 704 pages
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as we would, and the like ; but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves t ' Among the many points of contrast between modern and ancient thought, there are few, perhaps, of... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...onco to the business in hand. 2 Discoursing in the sense of discursive ; that Is, roving or unsettled. in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add...fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum, 4 because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like ; but ane dsomonum;" because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 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...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One 30 of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy mnum dcemonum, because it filleth the imagination,... | |
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