 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827
...of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and imaginations, as one would, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition?'* " This was my creed ; and I did not repent it, though my patron and kinsman told me I should never... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827
...of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and imaginations, as one would, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of meiar: choly and indisposition ?'* " This was my creed ; and I did not repent it, though my patron... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829
...lights. 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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves" One might well imagine, said he, unpleasing to themselves, if full of melancholy and indisposition.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829
...draw into less room. Bacon's Natural History. If there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy. Bacon. Many thrink, which at the first would dare. And be the foremost men to execute. Daniel's Cail... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829
...should reserve My cracked one to more care. Id. Cymbelme. Take out of men's minds false raluatiam, and it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things. Богач. Some value themselves to their country by jealousies of the crown. Temple. He sent him... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1831 - 240 pages
...delusions, how flattering soever to the imagination, could afford, of men's minds vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" — Essay on Truth. His lordship, however, although he thus strongly portrays the disagreeable effects... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 216 pages
...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...as one would, and the like, but it would leave the miuds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1833 - 279 pages
...lights. A mixture of lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken from mens' minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinumDsemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 356 pages
...there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations and imaginations, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves. So, take from the aged Mahometan the opinion which he has entertained through the whole of his life... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1838 - 832 pages
...lights. 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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum •litmonum ; because it filleth the imagination,... | |
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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 indisposition,... 
