...at length, an intellectual and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon said, " 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...

...compass, on the great ocean of uncertainty, — suffers, at length, an intellectual and moral wreck. 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...

...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dœmonum [devil'swine], 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 ia the presence of it, and the belief...

...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum [devil'swine], 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 belief...

...fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passcth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt, such as...

...at length, an intellectual and moral wreck. Most justly, as well as beautifully, has Bacon s;iid, " 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...

...Perhaps he was thinking of S. Augustine. Yid. Aug. Confess. i. 25, 26. called poesy, vinum damonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...it that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before, j But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which...

...and unpleasing to themselves t One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the He that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt,...

...to themselves ? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine], 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 belief...

...themselves. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and eettleth in it, that doth the hurt. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments...