 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...assigns as the reason for it, "that 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." Unless the lie looked more attractive than the truth, no one would prefer it, but, we believe, in every... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...poetry. "Thi* same truth," says Lord Bacon, " 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. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false... | |
 | 1857 - 602 pages
...assigns as the reason for it, "that 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." Unless the lie looked more attractive than the truth, no one would prefer it, but, we believe, in every... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 874 pages
...sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is n 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 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 as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...— this same truth is a plain thing; it is an open day-light, which shows not the processions mid mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily, as candle-lights do. Truth may perhaps be rated as a pearl which appears best by day, but it will not rise in general... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1860 - 588 pages
...presence of sunshine. ' Truth,' says Lord Bacon, with great beauty, ' 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.' Thanks to these ' candle-lights,' we want nothing but stucco, gilded wood, and painted canvas to produce... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 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...world half so stately and daintily as candlelights A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken out of men's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 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 of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlerlights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 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, 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. 
