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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,... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works - Page 82
by Francis Bacon - 1860
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The Essays Or Councils, Civil & Moral: Of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy Vinum Dcemonnm, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is,...it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before, howsoever these things are thus in men's, OF TRUTH. 37 depraved judgments and affections, yet truth,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ...

Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...unpleasing to themselves? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's wine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is...a lie. Bu,t it is not the lie that passeth through t^tc mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settletli in it. that doth the hurt; such as we spake of...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 652 pages
...is a middle state of mind between conviction and hypocrisy.' Bacon, in his Essay of Truth, says : ' It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but...sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.' A man who stays a week with another, makes him a slave for a week'.' BOSWELL. 'But there are people,...
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The Whole Truth: A Novel

J. H. Chadwick - English fiction - 1887 - 312 pages
...second voice, very solemnly. " Ah ! young ladies, if your mothers could see you now! " CHAPTER VII. " It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that cloth the hurt." BUT Jean had not come to Barbizon to indulge in heroics under the trees in the rain,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's ..., Volume 4; Volumes 1780-1784

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 466 pages
...is a middle state of mind between conviction and hypocrisy.' Bacon, in his Essay of Truth, says : ' It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and scttleth in it, that doth the hurt.' A man who stays a week with another, makes him a slave for a week...
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Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam): A Critical Review of His Life and Character ...

Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 pages
...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum dczmonum" § because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is nofthe lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 pages
...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy Vinum Damonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is, but with the shadow of a He. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 456 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...settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of* • imposeth upon] ie lays a restraint And told him of these triumphs upon. 1.ai. ex ea inventa cogitationibus...
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association

American Historical Association - Historiography - 1894 - 626 pages
...include religious phenomena in their descriptions and discussions. Now " it is not," as Bacon says, " the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie...sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt." And the lie that sinketh in and settleth in the mind is the lie that is insinuated rather than uttered,...
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, 1 in great severity, called poesy " vinum dsemonum," 2 because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and scttlcth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus...
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