 | 1881 - 578 pagina’s
...doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne* saitli rson but that he was bom licth, is as much as to say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men. For a lie faces... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pagina’s
...disgusting, and abandoned nature ; for can we he inquired tLe reason why the word of the lie should bo such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, saith...say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he ia brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man ;" surely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 236 pagina’s
...vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious; and therefore Montaigne* saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the...is as much as to say that he is brave towards God the plains, without a share in the danger: but nothing is there more delightful than to occupy the... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1883 - 360 pagina’s
...grim Care and stern Reality in their daily pilgrimage through the world. — Dickens. 5. Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the...it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as rmich to say, as that he is brave toward God, and a coward toward men." — Bacon. 6. Dear sensibility... | |
 | Hugh Fraser Campbell - 1883 - 128 pagina’s
...bear them, and submit to the dispensations of Providence. — Addison. 2. Montaigne saith prettily — "If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth is...men " ; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. — Bacon. 3. Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear O'er the rabble's laughter.— J.... | |
 | Robert Rhoden Meredith - 1883 - 136 pagina’s
...it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes. If it be well weighed, to say that aman lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards...towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pagina’s
...that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious ; and therefore Montaigne 2 saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the...the lie 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 as to say that he is brave... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 684 pagina’s
...is credited by Bacon with a debt due really to Plutarch. ' Montaigne saith prettily when he enquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such...that he is brave towards God and a coward towards man." ' A fine saying, to be found, however, in Plutarch's ' Life of Lysander.' While, perhaps, Montaigne's... | |
 | 1886 - 894 pagina’s
...is credited by Bacon with a debt due really to Plutarch. " Montaigne saith prettily when he enquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such...a man lieth is as much as to say that he is brave toward God and a coward toward man.' " A fine saying, to be found, however, in Plutarch's " Life of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 826 pagina’s
...veracitatem, doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the...well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave inwards Cod and a coward towards men.1 For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
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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. And therefore... 
