| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1861 - 408 pages
...they came to the unsatisfactory conclusion, that mankind has no criterion by which to form a judgment. for advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's...truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlerlights.... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...thinking of Bacon, or fresh from the reading of the passage in his Essay on Truth, in which he says, " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights... | |
| Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 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...a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily, as candle-lights. Truth... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1863 - 436 pages
...and actions, that bring lies into favor, and give a natural though corrupt tone to the lie itself. " This same 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 (elegantly) as... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians exammeth the matter, and Ls at a stand to think what should be in it, that men...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 4 as candlelights.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should...poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; but 1 Cogitationum vertigine. 2 ingenia qucedam ventosa et discursantia. * nee qute ex ed inventd cogitationibus... | |
| Richard Stephen Charnock - English language - 1866 - 374 pages
...women be vutrew, Their loue is but a mummerie, Or as an April's dew." — Warner. Albion's England. " This same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew the masques, and mummerict, and triumphs of the world, half so stately, and daintily, as candle-ligiits."... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...natural though corrupt love [4] of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should...for advantage, as with the merchant ; but for the [5] lie's sake. But I cannot tell ; this same truth is [3.] Bacon (in his " Wisdom of the Ancients,"... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 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 daintily4 as candle-lights.... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand (loss) to think what should be in it, that men should love...truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs3 (pageants) of the world, half so stately and daintily... | |
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