| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...clean 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...serpent; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not npon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious... | |
| Amelia Opie - 1848 - 514 pages
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| John Locke - 1849 - 372 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embascth which otherwise would |\ heal and do welj. Public...death of Pertinax; for the death 0 of Henry the Thir Tie found false and perfidjojjs ; and therefore Montaigne saith prettily,' when he inquired the reason,... | |
| 1850 - 696 pages
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| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...clean 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,... | |
| Maxims - 1852 - 242 pages
...measures. There cannot be a greater treachery, than first to raise a confidence, and then deceive it. There is no vice, that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. Truth alone, without eloquence, is sufficiently powerful and persuasive : and stands in need of no... | |
| John Arthur Roebuck - 1852 - 598 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehoods is like alloy of coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.' 1 Sir Robert Peel gravely said, when speaking of George IV., that ' Posterity will regard his late... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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...upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a mau with shame as to be found false and perfidious: and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he... | |
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