 | Jonathan Dymond - 1845 - 606 pages
...achievements of a regiment ?f " 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."^ Let us dismiss, then, that candlelight examination which men are wont to adopt when they contemplate... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - 1845 - 590 pages
...achievements of a regiment ?t " 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."J Let us dismiss, then, that candlelight examination which men are wont to adopt when... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 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 candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, Ihat showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...present time, but we argue that history ought to exhibit both, in order that we may estimate our loes and gain. We must, therefore, amend history ; suffer...triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights,1' but which, for the use of history, is our best guide : we repeat it, history must be... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...advantage, as rith the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I tell : this same truth is a naked and open t, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately »d daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps fine to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1850 - 260 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 candlelight. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 pages
...appreciate its beauty. " Truth," says Lord Bacon, " is an open daylight that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights," * and even as we shrink from letting the morning shine in upon a scene of nightly revel, and feel its... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...merchant, but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs...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... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1852 - 368 pages
...though corrupt love of the lie itself.—The same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights.—BACON, Essay of Truth. TO THE CLERGY OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF LEWES. MY DEAR BRETHREN,... | |
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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. 
