| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...Men's Minds, vain Opinions, flattering Hopes, falfe Valuations of Things, Imaginations at Pleafure, and the like ; but it would leave the Minds of a Number of Men poor dejefted Ihrunken Things, full of Melancholy and Languor, and uneafy and unpleafmg to themfelves? ONE... | |
| David Lloyd - Favorites, Royal - 1766 - 608 pages
...valua" tions, imaginations as one would, and the " like * vinum detnoKuw, as a father calls poetry, " but it would leave the minds of a number of " men, poor fnrunken things, full of melancho" ly, and indifpofition, and unpleafmg to them«' felves." " Clear... | |
| 1801 - 446 pages
...deprived of vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of fear, melancholy, and indisposition. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy "... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 588 pages
...stately, and daintily, as candle-lights. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunk:n things : full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " It will be... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 586 pages
...stately, and daintily, as candle-lights. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunkâ„¢ things : full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " It will be... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...mixture of a lie does ever add pleasure. Does any man doubt, that if there were taken out of mens' minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves. One of the fathers, in great severity,... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpl easing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Dsemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and Indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? '' This formidable Objection,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 1 One of the Fathers in great severity... | |
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