 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
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 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, which showeth best in varied lights. A mixture cf. lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...exceeded in that his leg was daintily formed.' — Wotton. B price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,1 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of... | |
 | American essays - 1886 - 910 pages
...Bacon said all this much more briefly, and therefore much better. " Doth any man doubt," quoth he, "that if there were taken out of men's minds vain...flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one mould, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pages
...in vain. LONDON, January 2f>tk, 1857. " 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... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...in vain. LONDON, January 26</i, 1857. " 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 - 1857 - 412 pages
...Diamond or Carbuncle, that fheweth beft in varied Lights. A mixture of a Lie doth ever add Pleafure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of Men's Minds vain Opinions, flattering Hopes, falfe Valuations, Imaginations as one would, and the like ; but it would leave the Minds of a Number... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 874 pages
...stately and daintily as candlelight. 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 a carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A MIXTURE OK A ME IXITH EVEH ADD A PLEASURE. One of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of...lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth arfy man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false... | |
 | Education - 1859 - 708 pages
...and ho\v they differ. A good teacher will neither despise object-teaching. nor make it a hobby. EPS Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, kilse valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number... | |
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