...fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum daemonum,'3 because it filleth the imagination, and yet is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the...that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever4 these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only...

...and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it — the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it — and the...

...themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy rinum dtzmonum, because itfilleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow...itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it—the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it—and the belief...

...fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum dsemonum/3 because it filleth the imagination, and yet is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the...that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever4 these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only...

...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum deemonum [devil'swine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is...through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settle th in it. that doth the hurt ; such as we spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus...

...unpleafing to themfelves ? One of the Fathers,3 in great Severity, called Poefy, Vinum Dfemonum ; becaufe it filleth the Imagination, and yet it is but with the Shadow of a Lie. But it is not the Lie that paffeth through the Mind, but the Lie that finketh in and fettleth in it, that doth the Hurt, fuch...

...IXITH EVEH ADD A PLEASURE. One of the fathers, in great severity, ealh-d poesy, ' the wine of demons,' because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie." So said the great philosopher ; and so too many have believed, because they were told ti> believe by...

...ideas run all through his works, from the first page to the last. Thus in the first of his Essays : Yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; arid the belief...

...subservience, and intrigue, in which he lived, as a lawyer, a courtier, and a chancellor, when he wrote, " Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it — the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it— and the...

...illusions be conducive to happiness. Bacon, it should be noted, takes care to say just afterward, " But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature." So that, after all, the boys might quote the philosopher...