 | Henry Harcourt - 1924 - 136 pages
...sea-serpent. Your Sincere Friend, H. HARCOURT. MENDACITY AND MISTRUST 'A mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it,' London, September 1924 MY DEAR FRIEND, I call to mind a talk you and I and others had after tennis... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...that clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in those times!)—we were used to have a debate...saving we could hit upon that should be an equivalent. Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...that clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy rriors - rThere is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious^ And therefore... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 pages
...will be acknowledged, even by those that practice it not, that clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and that mixture of falsehood is...as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of false hood ng winds have swept away. FKOM THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE In lowly dale, fast by Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace,... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature; and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal...as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 pages
...will be acknowledged even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and that mixture of falsehood is...as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace... | |
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To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business : it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like allay in... 
