 | George Stillman Hillard - 1854 - Страниц: 456
...'Truth,' says Lord Bacon, with great beauty, ' 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.' Thanks to these ' candle-lights,' we want nothing but stucco, gilded wood, and painted canvas to produce... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - Страниц: 318
...put into the mouth of the hero. "P. 6. Much falsehood and a spark of truth. — " I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that...show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - 1855 - Страниц: 440
...tongue talked of bravery and 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... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - Страниц: 536
...this matter. After asking why people are not more diligent in 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.... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 594
...among men ' a corrupt love of a lie for its own sake,' and he assigns as the reason for it, ' that truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show...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 - Страниц: 590
...among men ' a corrupt love of a lie for its own sake,' and he assigns as the reason for it, ' that truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show...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 - Страниц: 668
...among men ' a corrupt love of a lie for its own sake,' and he assigns as the reason for it, ' that truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - Страниц: 562
...as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that...mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily4 as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - Страниц: 344
...are put into the mouth of the hero. 7. Much falsehood and a spark of truth.] — "I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that...show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - Страниц: 352
...assigned as a reason for this evident revolution in Parliamentary taste. "Truth," says Lord Bacon, " is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights ;" — and there can be little doubt that... | |
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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. 
