| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...proverb will be true, ' There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.' He that took the silver bason and ewer for a bribe, thinketh that it will never...it not alone, there be more beside me that know it. 0 briber and bribery, he was never a good man that will so take bribes. Nor can I ever believe that... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 pages
...were my Lord Chancellor himself, to Tyburn with him.' We will quote but one more passage. ' He that took the silver basin and ewer for a bribe, thinketh...never a good man that will so take bribes. Nor can I believe that he that is a briber will be a good justice. It will never be merry in England till we... | |
| George Philip Krapp - 1915 - 578 pages
...anecdote of real life. A powerful appeal ad hominem is made when Latimer declares that the person who " took the silver basin and ewer for a bribe, thinketh that it will not come out ; but he may now know that I know it." And again, still on this same theme of bribery,... | |
| Robert Southey - 1850 - 714 pages
...Edward VI. [Bribery and Unjust Judgment.] " HE that took the silver bason andewerfor abribe^thinketh that it will never come out ; but he may now know...briber and bribery ! he was never a good man that will eo take bribes. Nor can I never believe that he that is a briber shall be a good justice. It will never... | |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1954 - 452 pages
...when you may be bound to go as far as Hugh Latimer, when speaking upon bribery — he said, "He that took the silver basin and ewer for a bribe, thinketh that it will never come out. But he may not know that I know it, and I know it not alone; there be more beside me that know it. Oh, briber... | |
| 452 pages
...cannot imagine a more telling point in a discourse on bribery than when the preacher said, ' He that took the silver basin and ewer for a bribe, thinketh...never come out; but he may now know that I know it.' It is his passionate desire to right social wrongs which gives Latimer his highest claim to be called... | |
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