 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 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...Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine] , because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,i and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing2 to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy 'vinum dwmonum,'2 because... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 416 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...the like, but it would 1 Loving. ' The Skeptics. * Latin, windy and rambling. * Restricts. ' Lucian. leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things,...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum [devils'-wine], because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but with the shadow of a... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? [VI, 377] The observation that unrelenting truthfulness in appraisal of a man's situation would produce... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 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? 95 Nor is it Gibbon's in his description of the monastic saints: The favourites of Heaven were accustomed... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 pages
...pleasure. Doth any man doubl. that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, ftattering hopes, false valuations. imaginations as one would,...but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shranken things. full of melancholy and indisposiiion, and anplrasing to themselves? —Francis Bacon,... | |
 | John Bryant - 1993 - 331 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves. 8 We are shrunken things without our "imaginations," but in confusing "false valuations" with true,... | |
 | John Arundel Barnes - 1994 - 222 pages
...rhetorical question: 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? Bok (1978:18) points to an acceptable intermediate state of affairs when she asserts that 'some level... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 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?" And let us believe that the following sentence contains his own apology to himself for submitting to... | |
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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,... 
