 | 1880 - 768 pàgines
...show the masks and mummeries and trinmphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights." Tho distance of India from England and the paucity of the means of information has kept the bulk of... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pàgines
...the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best * Bacon's Estays are the best-known and most popular of all his works. It is also one of those where... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1876 - 654 pàgines
...the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelight. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl,...but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or a carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A MIXTURE OF A LIE DOTH EVEII ADD A PLEASUUE. One... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pàgines
...candle-lights. Truth may 20 VOL. I. B 2 ©f tltrut!) [Essay I perhaps come to the price of a pearl, 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 add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, 25 that... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1876 - 420 pàgines
...axle-tree, brother, feather. 7. (a) " Trnth," says Bacon, " may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle." Explain. (4) He quotes a saying of Montaigne explaining " why the word of the lie should be such a... | |
 | Hermann Varnhagen - 1876 - 80 pàgines
...IV, 4, 43). I do not doubt but that my noble master will appear such as he is (Sh. Caes. IV, 2, 11). Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's mind vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pàgines
...the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best 'n varied lights. A mixture of a lye doth ever add pleasure. Doth ,;nyman doubt, that if there were... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 pàgines
...amici ! Non servastis, ait, cui sic extorta voluptas, Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error.' 1 ' A mixture of a lie doth ever add 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... | |
 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 370 pàgines
...show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle light. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that showeth well by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that shineth best in varied... | |
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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. 
