 If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 32by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 540 pages
...Saith he, 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 frorri man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed,... | |
 | 1917 - 722 pages
...prophesy, Sorrow on love here after shall attend: It shall be waited on with jealousy. Bacon, Essays I, 4. Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as that it shall be the last peal to call the judgment of God upon the generations of men, it being foretold,... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards man." even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen In the remembrance of a weeping qu 2. Of Travel Travel in the younger sort is a part of education ; in the elder a part of experience.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 pages
...he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lietlt is as much to sat/ as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God,...generations of men; it being foretold that, when Christ cometh,18 he shall not find faith upon the earth. OF REVENGE1 REVEKGE is a kind of wild justice; which... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...weighed, to say that a man lieth is as much as to say that he is brave toward God and a coward toward men." For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely...Christ cometh "He shall not find faith upon the earth." * > OF TRAVEL Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 pages
...saith he, // 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,...expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgements of God upon the generations of men : it being foretold that, when Christ cometh, he shall... | |
 | James Stacy Stevens - 1921 - 240 pages
...further reading. FRANCIS BACON What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. It being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. Et conversus Deus, ut aspiceret opera quae fecerunt manus suae, vidit quod omnia esseut bona nimis;... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 532 pages
...saith he, "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...cometh, "He shall not find faith upon the earth." 1 This figure is drawn from the old Ptolemaic system of astronomy. EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797) THE DEVASTATION... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...Saith he, "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,...cometh, "He shall not find faith upon the earth." ON GOING A JOURNEY1 WILLIAM HAZLITT William Hazlitt was born at Maidstone, Kent, 1778, and died in... | |
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