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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... "
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 English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth `W/ false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like ; but it would leave the minds of a number...
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Text-book of Prose from Burke, Webster, and Bacon: With Notes, and Sketches ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...discursive ; that Is, roving or unsettled. 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, it would leave the minds of a number of...
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Hogan, M.P.: A Novel

May Laffan - Irish fiction - 1881 - 508 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 minds of a number...
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Ideals of Life, Or, Wisdom of the Ages: A Series of Wholesome, Practical ...

Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 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 minds of a number...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 58

American essays - 1886 - 942 pages
...Bacon said all this much more briefly, and therefore much better. " Doth any man doubt," quoth he, "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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University of California Chronicle, Volume 14

United States - 1912 - 518 pages
...he have written Sartor Resartus? "A mixture of a lie," remarks Bacon, "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 lead the minds of a number...
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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. ' The Skeptics. *...
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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 minds of a number...
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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 minds of a number...
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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 minds of a number...
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