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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,... "
Selected Essays - Page 100
by Abraham Hayward - 1879
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Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin ...

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...Men's Minds, vain Opinions, flattering Hopes, falfe Valuations of Things, Imaginations at Pleafure, and the like ; but it would leave the Minds of a Number of Men poor dejefted Ihrunken Things, full of Melancholy and Languor, and uneafy and unpleafmg to themfelves? ONE...
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State-worthies: Or, The Statesmen and Favourites of England from the ...

David Lloyd - Favorites, Royal - 1766 - 608 pages
...valua" tions, imaginations as one would, and the " like * vinum detnoKuw, as a father calls poetry, " but it would leave the minds of a number of " men, poor fnrunken things, full of melancho" ly, and indifpofition, and unpleafmg to them«' felves." " Clear...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 14

1801 - 446 pages
...deprived of vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of fear, melancholy, and indisposition. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " 'vinum damonum"...
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The Temple of Truth: Or, The Best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and ...

Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 586 pages
...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 shrunk™ things : full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " It will be...
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The Temple of Truth: Or, The Best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and ...

Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 588 pages
...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 shrunk:n things : full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " It will be...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...doubt, that if there were taken out of mens' minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like; but it would...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, riinn/t divmonum, the devil's wine, because it...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpl easing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum,"...
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The Friend: A Series of Essays

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Dsemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and Indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? '' This formidable Objection, (which however grounds itself on the false assumption, that I wage...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum " da;monum," because it fi'leth the imagination,...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Daemons," because it filleth the...
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