 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daemonum," because it nlleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow...are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, y»t truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...vmpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daemonum,"i because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, hut the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind,...truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the enquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking, or wooing of it: the knowledge of truth, which is the presence... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...and unpleaslng to themselves. One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonnm,'* because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and sel.tleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...and unpleasing to themselves. One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonum,'* because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that jiasseth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonum,'* hecause it filleth the imagination, awl yet it is hut with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, hut the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of hefore. But... | |
 | 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 - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...Ihe lie that passeth Ihrough the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and seltleth in it, that ^•J gument. In the former, we see, God vouchsafeth to descend to our capacity, i thus~in men's depraved judgmenls and affections/yet truth, which only dqlhjjudge itself, teacheth,... | |
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Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it,... 
