 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...the lie's sake. But I cannot tell: 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 ad candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day, but it... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 612 pages
...us : for those that he blesseth shall be blessed. If he i The open daylight of truth doth not shew the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and gallant as candlelight doth. Lord Bacon's K,-.iv ofTruth. condemn to hell, the applause of the world... | |
 | James Amiraux Jeremie - 1826 - 102 pages
...by the great Bacon: " This same 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....A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure, &c. (Essays.) Man is an imaginative being.... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 422 pages
...corrupt love of falsehood, that gives pleasure? ' Truth,' says he, ' is an open daylight, that does not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-light. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pages
...sake. But I cannot tell : this same 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. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pages
...sake. But I cannot tell : this same 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. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 284 pages
...of falsehood, that gives pleasure. ' Truth,' says he, ' is an open daylight, that does not show th* masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-light. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...sake. But I cannot tell : this same 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. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 pages
...sake. But I cannot tell: this same 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. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...sake. But I cannot tell : this same 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. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the... | |
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Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. 
