 | Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgements and affections, yet Truth, which... | |
 | India - 1855 - 864 pages
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations asone would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasant to themselves ?"* — humiliating certainly, but not the less true ! A strict adhesion to... | |
 | 1855 - 250 pages
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations asone would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and inImagination necessary for an historian. 153 disposition, and unpleasant to themselves ?"* — humiliating... | |
 | Sir Peter B. Maxwell - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1855 - 328 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 in* 6015, 6026. This statement is disproved by the returns under the hand of the principal medical... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers,1 in great severity, called poesy " vinum doemonum," 2 because it filleth the imagination,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 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.]... | |
 | 1008 pages
...taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, imaginations u one wonld, and the like, bat it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and nnpleasing to themselves?" This mast be oar defence; and those who do not approve of our conduct in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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 unpleasing2 to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum daemonum,'3... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 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...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
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A mixture of a lie doth ^ever add pleasure. 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... 
