 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...and perfidious; and therefore Montaigne says prettily, when he en*~ Lucretius. ' f Epicureans. quired the reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge: " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lies, is as much as to say, that he is brave towards God,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...shame, as to be found false and perfidious; and therefore, Montaigne saith prettily, when he enquired the reason why the word of the lie, should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge? "If it be well weighed, to say that a " man lieth, is as much as to say, that he is brave " towards... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious : and therefore Montaigne saitli prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word...should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, " If it be well weighed, " to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say " that he is brave towards... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...perfidious. And therefore Montagne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lye should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge...Saith he, " If it be well " weighed, to say that a man lyeth,is as much as to say, " that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards " men. For a lye faces... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pages
...disgrace, and such an odious charge ? Saith he, " If it be well " weighed, to say that a man ly eth, is as much as to say, " that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards " men. For a lye faces God, and shrinks from man." Surely the wickedness of falshood, and breach of faith, cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God,... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious: and therefore Montaign&saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word...should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...found false and perfidious ; and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, *hy the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and...he is brave towards God, and a coward "towards men. Fora lie faces God, and shrinks " from man." Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...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...should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God,... | |
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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... 
