 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pągines
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best hy day ; hut it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, which showeth best in varied... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pągines
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that...will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, which showeth best in varied lights. A mixture cf. lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pągines
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily4 as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the 1 Affect. To aim at; endeavour afler. 'Thls proud man affects imperial sway.' — Dryden. 1 Discoursing.... | |
 | 1008 pągines
...is tempted to cite Bacon, with a writer in the last number of the "Quarterly Review," and to say — "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 u one wonld, and the like, bat it would... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pągines
...stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, 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, that... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 874 pągines
...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 OK A ME IXITH EVEH ADD A PLEASURE. One of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pągines
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily4 as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the 1 Affect. To aim at ; endeavour after. ' This proud man affects imperial sway.' — Dry den. 3 Discoursing.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pągines
...Diamond or Carbuncle, that fheweth beft in varied Lights. A mixture of a Lie doth ever add Pleafure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of Men's Minds vain Opinions, flattering Hopes, falfe Valuations, Imaginations as one would, and the like ; but it would leave the Minds of a Number... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pągines
...stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may 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 arfy man doubt, that... | |
 | 1859 - 708 pągines
...and ho\v they differ. A good teacher will neither despise object-teaching. nor make it a hobby. EPS Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, kilse valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number... | |
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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. 
