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The English Theophrastus: Or, The Manners of the Age: Being the Modern ... - Page 335
by Abel Boyer - 1702 - 367 pages
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...carbuncle, that showeth best 'n varied lights. A mixture of a lye doth ever add pleasure. Doth ,;nyman 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...
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 370 pages
...diamond or carbuncle that shineth 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, imagination, and the like, but that it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...
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Masterpieces in English Literature: And Lessons in the English ..., Volume 1

Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 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 * What is truth P...
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 414 pages
...diamond or carbuncle that shineth 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, imagination, and the like, but that it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...
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The essays, i-(lviii) or, Counsels civil and moral of Francis lord ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...or carbuncle, 17 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 But howsoever 20 these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet Truth, which...
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The Essays (I-LVIII) Or, Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...or carbuncle,17 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,13 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number...
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Supernatural Revelation: Or, First Principles of Moral Theology

Thomas Rawson Birks - Apologetics - 1879 - 304 pages
...world half so stately and daintily as candle-light. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, and false imaginations, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott. Text only, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, »s 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...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 5; Volume 18

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1880 - 704 pages
...verifiable ideals. Yet it was not always so — •' Doth any man doubt,' says the large-minded Bacon, ' that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as we would, and the like ; but it would leave the minds of a number...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 5

1880 - 690 pages
...unverifiable ideals. Yet it was not always so — ' Doth any man doubt,' says the large-minded Bacon, ' that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as we would, and the like ; but it would leave the minds of a number...
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