...philosophers and casuists argue and sneer. " Doth any man doubt," says Francis Bacon (of truth), " that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Apply this to supposed religious truths, such as those of the Papal Church for instance, and we...

...add 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 ? ' But how different is it with those who, instead of feeding on the wind, or drinking in the ' vinum...

..."who" or "that." " It cannot be doubted (15^) that the minds of a vast number of men would be left poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves, if (32) there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, false valuations, imaginations as one (a)...

...pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? ' So says Lord Bacon ; and few aphorisms in prose or verse are more popular than Gray's ' Where ignorance...

...taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,3 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum* because it filleth the imagination,...

...vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,' 9 and the like, but 2 ' it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and indisposition," and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers," in great severity, called poesy "vinum dcemonum" because it filleth the imagination,...

...thoughts = it puts restrictions upon men's thoughts = it puts bounds to the license of speculation, etc. minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy* u vinurn dsemonum," because it filleth the imagination,...

...nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves. One of the Fathers called poesy vinum dcemonium, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...

...the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl,...melancholy, and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum, because it filleth the imagination,...

...false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum demonum (as a father calleth poetry), but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?" A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth !—and even where it does apply,...