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" One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; but for the lie's... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page xl
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...persons to be entertained ? — " One of the later school of the Grecians (says Lord Bacon) examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what .should...with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake. But I can not tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 pages
...persons to be entertained ? — " One of the later school of the Grecians (says Lord Bacon) examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be iu it that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets ; nor for advantage,...
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The Philosophical Works of John Locke, Volume 1

John Locke - Philosophy - 1854 - 560 pages
...natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. "One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should...truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle...
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Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth we have of several grains, roots, and kernels : yea,...any other meat ; who o G ㄃ show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights....
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...persons to be entertained ? — " One of the later school of the Grecians (says Lord Bacon) examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should...with poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; hut for the lie's sake. But I can not tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1854 - 660 pages
...their deeds are evil;" well knowing (if I may borrow the words of Bacon) " that the open day-light doth not shew the masks and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately as candle-light." The philosopher, on the other hand, who is duly impressed with the latter, may be...
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Faust, a dramatic poem, tr. into Engl. prose with notes by the translator of ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...put into the mouth of the hero. "P. 6. Much falsehood and a spark of truth. — " I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as...
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Exercises on Words: Designed as a Course of Practice on the Rudiments of ...

William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should...a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...natural, though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examiueth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should...truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily4 as candle-lights....
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools 2 of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should...neither they make for pleasure, as with poets ; nor 1 He refers to the following passage in the Gospel of St. John, xviii. 38: " Pilate saith unto him,...
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