 Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's 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 indisposition,...  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 204edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 pages
...opulent, tenacious in retaining the opinions which we have formed. Bacon in his " Essay on Truth," says, " If there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations and imaginations, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum •litmonum ; because it filleth the imagination,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like; but it would leave the... | |
 | Henry Dunn - 1839 - 238 pages
...opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations, as one would, and the like vinum damonum, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?"' Alas, how true ! How many, in this way, first dupe themselves, and then become the dupes of others... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 430 pages
...side ? Where sky-born forms are flitting near, To charm it through " the eternal year." NOTHING. " Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as ' one would,' and the like, but it would leave the... | |
 | Henry Dunn - 1839 - 302 pages
...world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...valuations, imaginations, as one would, and the like vinum damonum, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth eve? add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and vmpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daemonum,"i... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the hi* viiinm Dcmonum (as a Fattier calleth poetry) but c rument. And thus, my love ! as on the midway slope Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs indisposabcsi, and unpleasing to themselves?" A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a amvenal... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...that Lord Bacon had special reference to the present race of " orthodox" professors, when he asks, " Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Is there not benevolence in the wish — it is one in which I am often disposed to indulge — that... | |
 | 1843 - 734 pages
..." Doth any man doubt," observes Lord Bacon, in his Essay on Truth, " that if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, CRITICAL NOTICES. n» Easter* <nd Wetter* States of America. By JS BVCCIMQBAM, Esq. Three Vols. Fisher.... | |
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