 Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's A 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...  Essays moral, economical and political - Page 10by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...stately and daintily, as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; out it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1854 - 560 pages
...daintily as candle light. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that .- 1 1 1 1 v. ! -i 1 1 best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied light. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure." But if there be a pleasure... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...stately and daintily, as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps rome to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 452 pages
...from a profound knowledge of human nature that Lord Bacon, in discoursing upon truth, remarked that a mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. " Doth any man doubt," he asks, " that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,... | |
 | India - 1855 - 864 pages
...quality, — as the impressive sequel of the above quotation proves. " Doth any man doubt," he asks, " that if there 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 a number of men poor shrunken things, full... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best hy day ; hut it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, which showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt,... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of...there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would leave the minds... | |
 | 1008 pages
...is tempted to cite Bacon, with a writer in the last number of the "Quarterly Review," and to say — "A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, imaginations u one wonld, and the like, bat it would... | |
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