 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 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...which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet.54 ...we are much beholden, [Bacon writes in both Advancements] to Machiavel and others of that... | |
 | Orville W. Owen - 1995 - 220 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 872 pages
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 | Nieves Mathews - 1996 - 620 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 work the better, but it embaseth it' (my italics). Replacing 'but', however, with 'though', Abbott changed the emphasis of these lines,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...like allay17 in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth18 it. For these winding and crooked courses are the...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 445 pages
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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... 
