| Abel Boyer - Characters and characteristics - 1702 - 404 pages
...Carbuncle, thac fliews beft in varied Lights. A mixture of a Lyt does ever add Pleafure. Does any Man doubt, that if there were taken out of Men's Minds, vain Opinions, flattering Hopes, falfe Valuations, ancl ill grounded Conceits, but it would leave the Minds of moft Men poor fhrunkcn... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...brightefl: in varied Lights. A mixture of T * UT H. of a Lie doth ever add Pleafure. Doth any Man doubt, that if there were taken out of Men's Minds, vain Opinions, flattering Hopes, falfe Valuations of Things, Imaginations at Pleafure, and the like ; but it would leave the Minds of... | |
| 1801 - 446 pages
...advantage in varied lights. A mixture of a lie not unf'requently adds pleasure. Were we deprived of vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of fear, melancholy, and indisposition.... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 588 pages
...Mummeries, and Triumphs, of the world, half so stately, and daintily, as candle-lights. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain...as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunk:n things : full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 586 pages
...Mummeries, and Triumphs, of the world, half so stately, and daintily, as candle-lights. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain...as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunk⢠things : full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...mixture of a lie does ever add pleasure. Does any man doubt, that if there were taken out of mens' minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...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, and unpleasing... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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,...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, and unpl easing... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...lights. A mixture of Lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken from mens' minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Dsemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...that sheweth 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,...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, and unpleasing... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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,...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, and unpleasing... | |
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