| Francis Bacon, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - 1907 - 248 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...saith he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lift A, is as much to say as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces... | |
| Herbert Raine Curlewis - 1906 - 324 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. ' To say that a man lieth is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.'... | |
| Edwin Bormann - 1906 - 268 pages
...earthly reason than for the sake of rhyming : And therefore Mountaigny saith prettify, when A<r enquir'd the reason, why the word of the Lie, should be such a Disgrace, and such an Odious Charge ? Saith he . . . Thus we see the Frenchman's quotation prefaced by a profusely rhymed verse in French Alexandrines.... | |
| Charles Crawford - 1907 - 172 pages
...Shame, as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Mountaigny saith prettily, when he enquired the reason, why the word of the Lie, should be such...well weighed, To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a Coward towards men." For a Lie faces God, and shrinkes... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1908 - 270 pages
...doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith u prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word...well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1908 - 414 pages
...vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne6 saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the...he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, 1 "The basis of all excellence is truth." Dr. Samuel Johnson. Life of Cowley. Edited by Mrs. A. Napier.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...Shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Mountaigny saith prettily, when he enquired the reason why the word of the Lie should be such...well weighed, To say that a man lieth, is as much to say as 75 that he is brave towards God and a Coward towards Men. For a Lie faces God, and shrinkes... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1908 - 272 pages
...doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith11 prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word...Saith he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man licth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1908 - 428 pages
...vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne6 saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the...should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge T Saith he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, 1 "The basis of all excellence is truth."... | |
| Alfred Horatio Upham - 1908 - 584 pages
...Here he is quoted as saying, "If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man." ' In the same essay, however, there occurs a reference which seems most probably to have pointed at... | |
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