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" 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 286
by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pages
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Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients

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...
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Examinations Papers

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...
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A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical ...

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...
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British Classical Authors. Select Specimens of the National Literature of ...

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-...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

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....
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Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse

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...
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Terms of Response: Language and the Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth ...

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,...
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Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose

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...
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Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance

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...
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A Pack of Lies: Towards a Sociology of Lying

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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