 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
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 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... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 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. [VI, 377] The next transition, from the occasional untruth to 'living a lie', is once again made by... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 229 pages
...stately and daintily as candlelights. 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 doubl. that... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 pages
...the civil irony of Bacon in the Essays: 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... | |
 | Jonathan Adams, James Luther Adams - Religion - 1991 - 404 pages
...have liked also another word from Bacon, "Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of...or carbuncle that sheweth best in varied lights." During the next two decades Tillich by means of his vision of the one great light attempted to interpret... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 1995 - 304 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... | |
 | David Loewenstein, Janel M. Mueller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 1064 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...diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights.54 In the course of reading the poem, the reader learns to interpret - to discriminate, to evaluate,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...Stately, and daintily, as Candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a Pearle, that sheweth best by day: But it will not rise, to the price of...best in varied lights. A mixture of a Lie doth ever adde Pleasure. Doth any man 25 doubt, that if there were taken out of Mens Mindes, Vaine Opinions,... | |
 | Robert E. Bartholomew - Social Science - 2001 - 308 pages
...wish manias, and pseudoscience. Chapter 13 Before Roswell: The Meaning Behind the Crashed-UFO Myth Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of...hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would ... it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, and full of melancholy and indisposition.—... | |
 | Jennifer C. Jackson - Confidence - 2001 - 196 pages
...ourselves. To do so would be loathsome' (1930: 206). Francis Bacon (in his essay: 'Of Truth') asks: Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false evaluations, imaginings as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men... | |
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