...gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it." In another passage, "Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?" In another essay, " The best composition and temperament is to have an openness in fame and opinions,...

...headache on the morrow. For we frankly own ourselves to be of that feeble band, of whom Bacon says : " Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Many and famous are the instances of this morganatic alliance between Truth and Poetry : none perhaps...

...take pleasure in the lie, and are glad we can cozen ourselves." (Discoveries, De Stultitia.) (8) " A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves. " (Essays, Of Truth.) " It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it...

...take pleasure in the lie, and are glad we can cozen ourselves." (Discoveries, De Stultitia.) (8) " A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves. " (Essays, Of Truth.) "It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a...

...that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, 15 that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One 30 of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum, because it filleth the imagination,...

...same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs8 of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights....hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would h, and the like, but it 30 would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy...

...that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...would, and the like, but it would leave the minds 1 Cogitationttm vertigine. ' ingcnia quiftam ventota et diiciirsantia. ' n'ii/iiu ex ed invenia cogitationiliut...

..." This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not j~5 Bacon wrote, " of all my works."] show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unf leasing to themselves ? " "One might well imagine," said he, "unpleasing to themselves, if full...

...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,...and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, 1 in great severity, called poesy " vinum dsemonum," 2 because it filleth the imagination, and yet...

...society. Lies, Half-. Lord Bacon, in his essay " Of Truth," has the following praise of half-lies: A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? — BACON; £ssajs: Of Truth. Fer contra^ Tennyson says, — That a lie which is half a truth is ever...