 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...  Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ... - Página 562de Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 636 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | May Laffan - 1881 - 508 páginas
...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...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves." — Bacon. "Ix's the m'ost unaccountable proceeding I ever remember to have heard of. Disappear in... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 páginas
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — LORD BACON. Do not be over - fond of anything, or consider that for your interest which makes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 páginas
...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...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy "vinum dsemonum,"0 because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
 | Kathleen Knox - 1882 - 156 páginas
...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...One of the Fathers in great severity called poesy .... devil's wine, because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie.... | |
 | 1886 - 942 páginas
...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...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?" His drift just here is to the point that these unsubstantial pith-contents of men's brains make, on... | |
 | 1909 - 378 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babe - 1989 - 72 páginas
...in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in it, that doth hurt . . . — Francis Bacon, "Of Truth" (1625) DEMON WINE ACT I SCENE 1 A table, a couple... | |
 | John Bryant - 1993 - 331 páginas
...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...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves. 8 We are shrunken things without our "imaginations," but in confusing "false valuations" with true,... | |
| |
