 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...Half-. Lord Bacon, in his essay " Of Truth," has the following praise of half-lies: A mixture of a He doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if...of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?—BACON: Essays: Of Truth. Per contra, Tennyson says,— That a lie which is half a truth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - 342 pages
...day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied light. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, 1 He probably refers to the " New Academy," a sect of Greek philosophers, one of whose moot questions... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price11 of a diamond or carbuncle,'3 that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1897 - 316 pages
...smile, ' I could not help smiling.' 45. delusions. Compare what Bacon says in his essay on Truth : " Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves." CHAPTER IV. In the heading of the chapter ' constitution ' means mental constitution, temperament.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1897 - 300 pages
...smile, ' I could not help smiling.' 45. delusions. Compare what Bacon says in his essay on Truth : " Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves." CHAPTER IV. In the heading of the chapter ' constitution ' means mental constitution, temperament.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1897 - 300 pages
...smile, ' I could not help smiling.' 45. delusions. Compare what Bacon says in his essay on Truth : "Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves." CHAPTER IV. In the heading of the chapter 'constitution' means mental constitution, temperament. The... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 428 pages
...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...flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,3 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 360 pages
...for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell ; this same truth is a naked and open...imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would 1 Loving. 8 The Skeptics. 8 Latin, windy and rambling. • Restricts. • Lucian. leave the minds of... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1112 pages
...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...like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men pour shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? — BACON:... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1909 - 306 pages
...character to that put forward by the Duke of Argyll : — ' Doth any man doubt,' enquires Francis Bacon, ' that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? ' Certain it is that in human nature one can detect not only an inclination to build, with much pleasure... | |
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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 indisposition,... 
