 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...unmixed falsehood. Bacon in "Of Truth" draws an analogous distinction: "It is not the lie that passes through the mind but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt," but here again, the "lie" means the falsehood that has been mistaken by the hearer for truth and not... | |
 | John Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 331 pages
..."imaginations," but in confusing "false valuations" with true, we run the risk of self-delusion, 9 for "It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh and settleth in it, that doth the hurt." Rather than happily fall out of memory, Bacon's lie, through... | |
 | Steven C. Ward - Philosophy - 1996 - 196 pages
...must needs be filled with infinite errors and false appearances" (Bacon 1961a, 433). He argued that "it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it" (Bacon 1961b, 378). He compared the mind to "an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture"... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - Philosophy - 1996 - 620 pages
...But that magic has done its work. 'It is not the lie that passetti through the mind,' wrote Bacon, 'but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt.'68 The psychological power of what he called a 'false notion, or idol' is all the greater when... | |
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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,... 
