 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pages
...opinions, false valuations, false lights, imaginations as one would and the like, they would be left poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves," It is to guard against this contingency that men, knowing not the power of truth, resolve, let the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...water still unevaporated, and uttering the last words of reason, IT is IN VAIN TO BE SANE IN A WOULD OF MADMEN, plunged and rolled himself in the liquid...unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply, yet in many instances not irremediable.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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? One of the fathers,3 in great severity, i Job. xviii. 38. * Probably he means the Sceptics. 1 Perhaps... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...valuations, imaginations at one would, and ihe kit viniim Daemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) bot n rors ! Now run down and stared at By Forms so hideous that they mock remembrance— N indispcmucn and unpleasing to themselves Г* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust. a noversal... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 pages
...dullness as with obscurity. It may be positive, and the author's fault ; but it may likewise be relatives and if the author has presented his bill of fare at...unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply, yet in many instances not irremediable.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; hut for the lie's sake. But I can not tell : this same...unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply, yet in many instances not irremediable.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...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, flattering hopes, false...like; but it would leave the minds of a number of men I>oor shrunken things ; full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 452 pages
...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and imaginations, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " This admitted tendency of our nature — this love of the pleasing intoxication of unveracity,... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 pages
...— 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, flattering hopes, false...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgements and affections, yet Truth, which... | |
 | Sir Peter B. Maxwell - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1855 - 328 pages
...human nature. " Doth any man doubt," Lord Bacon has well asked, " that if there were taken out of " men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...men, " poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and in* 6015, 6026. This statement is disproved by the returns under the hand of the principal medical... | |
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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,... 
