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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 - 1825
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Masterpieces in English Literature, & Lessons in the English Language...

Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 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-lights....
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians cxamineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should...poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but for tho lie's sake. But I cannot tell; this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show...
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Engelske forfattere i udvalg. med biografiske indeldminger og oplysende ...

Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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...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....
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The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid the Formation of Fixed Principles in ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English essays - 1875 - 474 pages
...persons to bo entertained ?—" One of the later schools of the Grecians (says Lord Bacon, Essay I.) is at a stand to think what should be in it that men...advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. I cannot tell why, this same truth ia a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew the masques and...
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The Newtonian, Volumes 1-2

Newton Abbot College - 1875 - 354 pages
...reposed. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. 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 candlelight....
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...natural, though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth s, Liv. If., chap, xviii. Du * Ari«totle, " Ethics,"...may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicious, show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights....
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 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...advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. LORD BACON : Essay /., Of Tnt/ft. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 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...lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets,8 nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell: this same...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 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...should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, 15 as with poets, nor with advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell...
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The Poetical Works of Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay - Poetry - 1876 - 654 pages
...distinguished from, and the opposite of, truth. ' One of the later schools of the Grecians,' said he, ' is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure.a* with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot...
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