 | S. S. Hussey - 1995 - 212 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...rest in Providence and turn upon the poles of truth." How profound the observation in this passage! "This same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle lights.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 872 pages
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 | John Gross - 1998 - 1064 pages
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 | David Loewenstein, Janel M. Mueller - 2002 - 1064 pages
...floodlights ofwisdom as into the murky, flickering, candle-lit world of Bacon's 'Essay on Truth' (1597): This same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth... | |
 | Michelle Lee - 1999 - 508 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...of the latter school of the Grecians* examineth the matter, and is at a stand7 to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for8 pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 445 pages
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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 advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. 
