 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 páginas
...are evil;" well knowing (if I may borrow the words of Bacon) " that the open day-light doth not shew the masks and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately as candle-light." The philosopher, on the other hand, who is duly impressed with the latter, may be... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - 1855 - 440 páginas
...tongue talked of bravery and glory, and no newspaper published the achievements of a regiment ** " Truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show...triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights."t Let us dismiss then that candle-light examination which men are wont to adopt when... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 páginas
...put into the mouth of the hero. "P. 6. Much falsehood and a spark of truth. — " I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 páginas
...this matter. After asking why people are not more diligent in the pursuit of Truth, Bacon says : " This same Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 páginas
...to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant,...a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily4 as candle-lights.... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 páginas
...to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant...truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.... | |
 | 1856 - 824 páginas
...Ruskin tell us, as Bacon told our fathers, that we have " a corrupt love of the lie itself," that " this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that...triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-light." And in a Book, fifteen hundred years older than the Essays, we are told that even then... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1856 - 386 páginas
...corrupt love of the lie itself. — The same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. — BACON, Essay of Truth. TO THE CLERGY OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF LEWES. MY DEAR BRETHREN, WHILE I was... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 páginas
...are put into the mouth of the hero. 7. Much falsehood and a spark of truth.] — "I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.... | |
 | 1856 - 590 páginas
...among men ' a corrupt love of a lie for its own sake,' and he assigns as the reason for it, ' that truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of .the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights.' Unless... | |
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... a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for... 
