| Jonathan Dymond - 1855 - 440 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 and daintily as candle-lights."t Let us dismiss then that candle-light examination which men are wont to adopt when... | |
| Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 páginas
...the pursuit of Truth, Bacon says : " This 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 candle-lights. — A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken out of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 páginas
...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 candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the... | |
| 1856 - 824 páginas
...we have " a corrupt love of the lie itself," that " this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-light." And in a Book, fifteen hundred years older than the Essays, we are told that even then... | |
| Julius Charles Hare - 1856 - 386 páginas
...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, WHILE I was... | |
| William Russell - 1856 - 240 páginas
...sake. But I cannot tell : 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 candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to... | |
| 1856 - 594 páginas
...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 candlelights. Unless the lie looked more attractive than the truth no one would prefer it, but, we believe, in every... | |
| 1856 - 590 páginas
...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 candlelights.' Unless the lie looked more attractive than the truth no one would prefer it, but, we believe, in every... | |
| 1856 - 668 páginas
...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 candlelights.' Unless the lie looked more attractive than the truth no one would prefer it, but, we believe, in every... | |
| 1857 - 632 páginas
...remember how sweetly Bacon speaks of truth in metaphor, " This same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs...half so stately and daintily as candle-lights." But he who uses it must beware that it be applicable in every particular, and simple, fetched from home,... | |
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