 One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that...  The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts - Page 31edited by - 1916 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1886 - 910 pages
...illusions be conducive to happiness. Bacon, it should be noted, takes care to say just afterward, " But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature." So that, after all, the boys might quote the philosopher... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum [devil'swine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is...depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dœmonum [devil'swine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is...depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Philosophy - 1858 - 620 pages
...fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passcth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt, such as... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...Perhaps he was thinking of S. Augustine. Yid. Aug. Confess. i. 25, 26. called poesy, vinum damonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...it that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before, j But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...and unpleasing to themselves t One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the He that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...to themselves ? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is...depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1860 - 544 pages
...themselves. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and eettleth in it, that doth the hurt. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1863 - 436 pages
...passage from this Essay, worthy to be engraved on the memory of every reader: " But, howsoever (although) these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it—the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...to themselves ? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine] , because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is...depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the... | |
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