 | Thomas Curtis - 1829
...your dainty plumbs arc a little dry. Bacon. Truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew ined, by immediate inspiration, but proceeded upon certain superstitious candlelight. Id. My house, within the city, Is richly furnished with plate and gold. Basons and ewers... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1829
...book, and redd aloud, " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew 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 sheweth best by day, but it will not rise to the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829
...evil ; " well knowing (if I may borrow the words of Bacon,) " that the open daylight doth not shew the masks and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately as candlelight." The philosopher, on the other hand, who is duly impressed with the latter, may be... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829
...are evil; " well knowing (if I may borrow the words of Bacon,) " that the open daylight doth not shew the masks and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately as candlelight." The philosopher, on the other hand, who is duly impressed with the latter, may be... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829
...evil ; " well knowing (if I may borrow the words of Bacon,) " that the open daylight doth not shew the masks and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately as candlelight." The philosopher, on the other hand, who is duly impressed with the latter, may be... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1831
...corrupt, love of falsehood that gives pleasure ? ' Truth,' says he,' is an open daylight, that does not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half BO stately and daintily as candlelight. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - 1832 - 571 páginas
...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-light. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - 1834 - 432 páginas
...glory, and no newspaper published the achievements of a regiment ?* " Truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately a»d daintily as candle-lights."t Let us dismiss then that candle-light examination which men are wont... | |
 | 1835
...evil ; ' well knowing (if I may borrow the words of Bacon). ' that the open daylight doth not bhow 8į as candelighl,' The philosopher, on the other hand, who is duly impressed with ihe latter, may be compared... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838
...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... | |
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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. 
