 ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Side 4af Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 sider
...winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover...perfidious ; and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, 1 Born 1561. when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such... | |
 | Wit - 1860 - 282 sider
...deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour ; nothing is ever to be attained without it. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. Wise men are instructed by reason ; men of less understanding, by experience : the most ignorant, by... | |
 | 1860 - 544 sider
...men, poor shrunken things — full of melancholy and indisposition ; and unpleasing to 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 sider
...the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature.' ' Tliere is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to fa found false and perfidious.'' This holds good when falsehood is practised solely for a man's private... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sider
...around us a calm and steady light, more solid, more equal, and more lasting. Blair. LIAR— a Coward. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be discovered in a lie ; for as Montaigne saitb — "A liar would be brave towards God, while ho is a... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 sider
...winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover...man with shame as to be found false and perfidious." "MEN in great places are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1863 - 436 sider
...jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." (This, the poet Cowper has finely used in his "Task.") "There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious." "It is a happy thing when religion is well contained within the true bond of unity." "There is no passion... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 sider
...winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover...should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge ? Saith he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 sider
...the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature.' ' Thcre is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious.' This holds good when falsehood is practised solely for a man's private advantage ; but, in a zealous... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 sider
...winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover...; and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he incurred the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, "If... | |
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