 | PROFESSOR SHEDD - 1853
...water still unevaporated, and uttering the last words of reason, IT is IN VAIN TO BE SANE IN A WORLD OF MADMEN, plunged and rolled himself in the liquid...unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general, bnt not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply, yet in many instances not irremediable.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853
...pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,...melancholy, and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers,3 in great severity, i Job. xviii. 38. * Probably he means the Sceptics. 1 Perhaps... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 546 pages
...valuations, imaginations at one would, and ihe kit viniim Daemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) bot n rors ! Now run down and stared at By Forms so hideous that they mock remembrance— N indispcmucn and unpleasing to themselves Г* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust. a noversal... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854
...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...like; but it would leave the minds of a number of men I>oor shrunken things ; full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1854 - 431 pages
...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and imaginations, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " This admitted tendency of our nature — this love of the pleasing intoxication of unveracity,... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 505 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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgements and affections, yet Truth, which... | |
 | Perriton Maxwell, Sir Peter Benson Maxwell - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1855 - 315 pages
...human nature. " Doth any man doubt," Lord Bacon has well asked, " that if there were taken out of " men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...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... | |
 | India - 1855
...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations asone would, and the like, but it would leave the minds...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasant to themselves ?"* — humiliating certainly, but not the less true ! A strict adhesion to... | |
 | 1855
...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations asone would, and the like, but it would leave the minds...of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and inImagination necessary for an historian. 153 disposition, and unpleasant to themselves ?"* — humiliating... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 360 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,1 in great severity, called poesy " vinum doemonum," 2 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,... 
