...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as we would, and the like ; but it would leave the minds...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves t ' Among the many points of contrast between modern and ancient thought, there are few, perhaps, of...

...the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. the IW/ ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, "vinum dsomonum;" because it filleth the imagination,...

...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,...see that Beacon, Mr. Hogan. Are you sure it is he V The speaker, Mrs. Bursford, who was seated in her easychair, stretched out her hand for the newspaper...

...been last night. CHAPTER XXXIII. " Truth may perhaps come to the price of a peril that showeth best hy day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves." — Bacon. "Ix's the m'ost unaccountable proceeding I ever remember to have heard of. Disappear in broad daylight,...

...Bacon said all this much more briefly, and therefore much better. " Doth any man doubt," quoth he, "that if there were taken out of men's minds vain...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...

...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,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum [devils'-wine], because it filleth...

...surreptitiously converted into that of truth as occasional lying - day-to-day misrepresentation of facts: Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? [VI, 377] The observation that unrelenting truthfulness in appraisal of a man's situation would produce...

...irony of this passage does not belong to satire. It is not the civil irony of Bacon in the Essays: Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...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...

...pleasure," and that an occasional lie, rather than impeding consciousness, smooths its flow. He writes: Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves. 8 We are shrunken things without our "imaginations," but in confusing "false valuations" with true,...

...of Lilliput and Brobdingnag and seem to confirm Francis Bacon's (1861a:377-378) rhetorical question: Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? Bok (1978:18) points to an acceptable intermediate state of affairs when she asserts that 'some level...