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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 indisposition,... "
Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ... - Page 87
by George Walker - 1825 - 615 pages
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Aphorism in the Francophone Novel of the Twentieth Century

Mark Bell - 1997 - 170 pages
...cowardly, it goes masked into society and calls itself justice" (148). 4 Verrätselung (Mystification) as one would, and the like; but it would leave the...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?" (Oxford, 226) For Fricke, the last four routes an aphorism might take to obscure its substance (and...
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Clerical Errors: A Novel

Alan Isler - 2001 - 298 pages
...please, Ms. Mackletwist." Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? — Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Truth," Essays, 1597-1625 In the affairs of this world men are saved, not...
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Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth I and even where it does apply,...
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Truth, Trust and Medicine

Jennifer C. Jackson - 2001 - 202 pages
...there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false evaluations, imaginings as one would, and the like, but it would leave the...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? (1825:4) But if we decide not to attempt to deprive one another of all these props, we do not have...
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The Major Works

Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,0 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number...of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition,0 and unpleasing to themselves? One of the Fathers,0 in great severity, called poesy...
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How to Know

Robert McHenry - 2004 - 156 pages
...often settle well short. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? -Francis Bacon If you are prepared to decide that at least sometimes you will risk knowing, we can...
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Infirm Glory: Shakespeare and the Renaissance Image of Man

Sukanta Chaudhuri - 1981 - 284 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? (Essays, 'Of Truth': Abbott, 'I. 1. 20-2. 29) To take all knowledge for our province is to shrink our...
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Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau

John Farrell - 2006 - 372 pages
...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...of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?"12 It is easy to recognize in Bacon's conception an anticipation of Freud's distinction...
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Essays

Francis Bacon - 2007 - 157 pages
...opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it wouM leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things,...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dsmonum [devils'-winej, because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but with the shadow of a...
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