 | 1909 - 378 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...such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith he, // it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 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...it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as 1 although 2 perceptions 3 passions 4 trust in 5 thing created 6 time of rest, cessation of labour... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 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 a Disgrace, and such an Odious Charge? Saith he, // it be well weighed, To say that a man a Coward towards men. For a Lie faces God, and shrinkes from... | |
 | Jennifer C. Jackson - 2001 - 202 pages
...should be given to an appropriate person ....' Notes 159 3 Why truthfulness matters 1 Not Francis Bacon: 'If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is...towards men. For a lie faces God and shrinks from man' (1825: 5). 2 Cf. St. Augustine: "The mouth that lieth slayeth the soul' (On Lying: 390). 3 All quotations... | |
 | Jennifer C. Jackson - 2001 - 196 pages
...information should be given to an appropriate person . . . .' 3 Why truthfulness matters 1 Not Francis Bacon: 'If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is...coward towards men. For a lie faces God and shrinks fromman'(1825:5). 2 Cf. St. Augustine: "The mouth that lieth slayeth the soul' (On Lying: 390). 3 All... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne0 saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the...and such an odious charge? Saith he, 'If it be well weighed,0 to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward... | |
 | Cristina Kirklighter - 2002 - 176 pages
...fun at Montaigne's personal disclosures: "And therefore Mountaigny saith prettily, when he enquired the reason, why the word of the Lie, should be such a Disgrace, and such an Odious Charge"? (Kiernan 8). Although Bacon may have had knowledge and even adapted part of Montaigne's essay form,... | |
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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... 
