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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. "
Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One - Page 14
by Francis Bacon - 1820 - 539 pages
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...One of the later school of the Grecians cxamineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies; where neither...poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but for tho lie's sake. But I cannot tell; this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show...
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Engelske forfattere i udvalg. med biografiske indeldminger og oplysende ...

Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...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...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 candlelights....
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The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid the Formation of Fixed Principles in ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1875 - 474 pages
...of the later schools of the Grecians (says Lord Bacon, Essay I.) is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies, where neither...advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. I cannot tell why, this same truth ia a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew the masques and...
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The Newtonian, Volumes 1-2

Newton Abbot College - 1875 - 354 pages
...reposed. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. 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 candlelight....
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to think what should " Bk viii. 112 113 for the lungs ; castoreum for the...may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicious, show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights....
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...One of the later schools 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...advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. LORD BACON : Essay /., Of Tnt/ft. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...One of the later schools 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,8 nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell: this same...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...One of the later schools 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, 15 as with poets, nor with advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell...
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The Poetical Works of Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay - 1876 - 654 pages
...of, truth. ' One of the later schools of the Grecians,' said he, ' is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure.a* with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot...
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English Prose, 1600-1660

Cecil Albert Moore - 1930 - 648 pages
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