 ... 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 - Strona 4autor: Francis Bacon - 1812 - Liczba stron: 295Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Frederick Arnold - 1873 - Liczba stron: 418
...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 as to say that he is brave towards... | |
 | W J Morgan - 1874 - Liczba stron: 750
...must quote some weighty words of Lord Bacon on this point : "There is novice," he says (Essay 1st), "that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found...prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, saith he, ' If it be well weighed, to say... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - Liczba stron: 266
...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...as to be found false and perfidious ; and therefore Montaigne3 saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie* should be such a disgrace,... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1873 - Liczba stron: 382
...which lights grim Care and stern Reality in their daily pilgrimage through tho world. — Dickens. 5. Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason,...word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such au odious charge. Saith he, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lictli, is as much to say, as... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1873 - Liczba stron: 366
...daily pilgrimage through tho world. — Dickens. 5. Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired tho reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith ho, " If it bo well weighed, to say that a man licth, is as much to say, as that ho is bravo... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - Liczba stron: 274
...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 enquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - Liczba stron: 100
...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, 38 when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - 1874 - Liczba stron: 440
...are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet." J Indeed, " there is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious." In the " Essay on Adversity," which, compared with prosperity, is called " the greater benediction,... | |
 | Christian text-book - 1874 - Liczba stron: 808
...Christian's head : • One view of Jesus as He is Will strike all sin for ever dead. Cmupcr. REFLECTIONS. ""THERE is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to •*• be discovered in a lie : for as Montaigne saith — " A liar would be brave towards God, while he is a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - Liczba stron: 700
...it—and the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it—is the sovereign good of human nature.' ' There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, astooe found false and perfidious.' This holds good when falsehood is practised solely for a man's... | |
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