 | P. Garrett - 1906 - 880 pages
...tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Although the devil be (iie father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors,...continual improvements that have been made upon him. Suift. The radiant sun Sends from above ten thousand blessings down, Nor is he set so high for show... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...man could gain by telling a falsehood, he replied " Never to be credited when he speaks the truth." "> 1908 F. B. Dickerson co."! Edwards Tryon" Tryon Edwards( Svrift. The telling of a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre ; for though the wound may heal, the... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...man could gain by telling a falsehood, he replied " Never to be credited when he speaks the truth." on declines, and with abated heat less fiercely ehinee ; seems to grow milder as he goes away. — D bis reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.— Steift. The telling of... | |
 | William Alexander Cocke - 1908 - 558 pages
...as air and light are excluded. — Whately. Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation...continual improvements that have been made upon him. — Swift. Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1915 - 518 pages
...it) he had been viceroy of a great western province ; and forced to exercise his talent in inferior regions among other fallen spirits, poor or deluded...first reduced lying into an art, and adapted it to politics, is not so clear from history, although I have made some diligent inquiries. I shall therefore... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 pages
...it) he had been viceroy of a great western province ; and forced to exercise his talent in inferior regions among other fallen spirits, poor or deluded...first reduced lying into an art, and adapted it to politics, is not so clear from history, although I have made some diligent inquiries. I shall therefore... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 368 pages
...daily tempts to his own sin, and will ever do so till he is chained in the bottomless pit. But though the Devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other...first reduced lying into an art, and adapted it to politics, is not so clear from history, though I have made some diligent enquiries : I shall therefore... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...SCOTT. 2 6vid, "Metamorphoses," xii. 56-61.—Ed. s "Paradise Lost," v. 708-710.—Ed. 185 But though the Devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other...first reduced lying into an art, and adapted it to politics, is not so clear from history, though I have made- some diligent enquiries: I shall therefore... | |
 | Burges Johnson - 1927 - 340 pages
...it) he had been viceroy of a great western province; and forced to exercise his talent in inferior regions among other fallen spirits, poor or deluded...first reduced lying into an art, and adapted it to politics, is not so clear from history, although I have made some diligent inquiries. I shall therefore... | |
 | Raphael Israeli - 2002 - 272 pages
...it) he had been viceroy of a great western province, and forced to exercise his talent in inferior regions among other fallen spirits, poor or deluded...the continual improvements that have been made upon them. Who first reduced lying into an art, and adapted it to politics, is not clear from history, although... | |
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But although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation, by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. 
