| Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 sivua
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and the like, it would leave the minds of most men poor, shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " The love of truth, which places its possessor in unavoidable opposition to the prejudice, party... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 sivua
...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...of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves1? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daempnum," because it filleth... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 sivua
...opinions, false valuations, false lights, imaginations as one would and the like, they would be left poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves," It is to guard against this contingency that men, knowing not the power of truth, resolve, let the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 sivua
...the price of a 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...?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply, yet in many instances not irremediable. Such... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 sivua
...the price of a 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...unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general, bnt not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply, yet in many instances not irremediable.... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 sivua
...pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,...melancholy, and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers,3 in great severity, i Job. xviii. 38. * Probably he means the Sceptics. 1 Perhaps... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 sivua
...valuations, imaginations at one would, and ihe kit viniim Daemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) bot n rors ! Now run down and stared at By Forms so hideous that they mock remembrance— N indispcmucn and unpleasing to themselves Г* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust. a noversal... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 sivua
...the price of a 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...?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply, yet in many instances not irremediable. Such... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 sivua
...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and imaginations, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " This admitted tendency of our nature — this love of the pleasing intoxication of unveracity,... | |
| Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 sivua
...— 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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgements and affections, yet Truth, which... | |
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