| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...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, and unpleaslng to themselves. One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonnm,'* because... | |
| john forbes - 1846 - 626 pages
...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, and unpleasiug to themselves ' " Nothing can be more injurious to the true interest of medicine than... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the likt, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum dsemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
| Electronic journals - 1858 - 682 pages
...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...One of the Fathers, in great severity, called Poesy, Vinmn Daimonum • because it filleth the Imagination, and yet it is but with the Shadow of a Lie."... | |
| Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, Use valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it f illustration, and not by way of argument : the latter...probation" no constant belief or confession, but left all to thefartiers.. in great severily, called poesy " vinuni oaemonum," because il filleth the imagination,... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1850 - 260 pages
...DOTH EVER ADD A PLEASURE. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, ' the wine of demons,' because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie." So said the great philosopher ; and so too many have believed, because they were told to believe by... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum 'iarmonum ; because it filleth the imagination, and T?t it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passe th through the mind, but the lie 'hit sinketh in, and seltleth in it, that doth the hurt, such... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...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...fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daBmonum, " because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1851 - 342 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Dsemonum, (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 ? " — (Lord Bacon, quoted in The Friend, vol. i., p. 9.) 8. That, old gentlemen, is your duty.] —... | |
| Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 pages
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and the like, it would leave the minds of most men poor, shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " The love of truth, which places its possessor in unavoidable opposition to the prejudice, party... | |
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