 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately andldaintily as candle-lights.} Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearlf that showeth best by... | |
 | 1838 - 420 pages
...the remark of Bacon ; " this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelight. The first creature of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense ; the last... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...merchant, but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs...world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 pages
...the remark of Bacon ; " this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-. light. The first creature of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense ; the... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 pages
...the remark of Bacon ; " this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelight. The first creature of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense ; the last... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...the passage in his Essay on Truth, in which he says, " 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. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 pages
...But I (•-iiniot 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 candlelight. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell. This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-light. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...their dteds are evil; ' well knowing, if I may borrow the words of Bacon, ' that the open day-light doth not show 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... | |
 | 1845 - 864 pages
...their deeds are evil; ' well knowing, if I may borrow the words of Bacon, ' that the open day-light doth not show 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... | |
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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. 
