 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 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,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 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,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and suet an odious charge, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is...towards men : for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.'j/ Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed... | |
 | David Hoffman - 1841 - 400 pages
...day they grow older. WHITE LYING. LIT. Lord Bacon notes a sensible remark of Montaigne, 'that a liar is brave towards God, and a coward towards men : for a lie faces God and shrinks from man' — and this is true in every departure from veracity, where the matter is addressed to a sane mind.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...shame, as to be found false 4* and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he enquireth the reason, why the word of the lie should be such...towards men." For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Of Marriage and Single Life. He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune, for they... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Mountaigny saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, Why the...towards men.' For a lie faces God, and shrinks from roan. Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith, cannot possibly be so highly expressed,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Mountaigny saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, Why the...a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave tuwards God, and a coward towards men.' For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...reason^ Why the word of the lie should he such a disgrace, od nch an odious charge ? Saith he, ' If it he well weighed, To say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is hrave ''lwait God, and a coward towards men.' For a lie faces rrod, and shrinks from man. Surely the... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 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... 
