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,... Poems: Now First Collected - Page 286by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 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, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the... | |
| 1884 - 610 pages
...To gain the timely inn. (V) Say to the king the knowledge of the broil As thou didst leave it. (c) 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... | |
| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...Learn'd and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee. LORD BACON. From ESSAY ON TRUTH. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds various opinions, flattering hopes. false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. n flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the-... | |
| Literature - 1909 - 378 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, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would 1 Loving.... | |
| Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...surreptitiously converted into that of truth as occasional lying - day-to-day misrepresentation of facts: 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... | |
| Robert L. Montgomery - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 229 pages
...pleasure. Doth any man doubl. that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, ftattering hopes, false valuations. imaginations as one would,...but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shranken things. full of melancholy and indisposiiion, and anplrasing to themselves? —Francis Bacon,... | |
| Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 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, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the... | |
| John Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 331 pages
...pleasure," and that an occasional lie, rather than impeding consciousness, smooths its flow. He writes: 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... | |
| John Arundel Barnes - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 222 pages
...of Lilliput and Brobdingnag and seem to confirm Francis Bacon's (1861a:377-378) rhetorical question: 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... | |
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