 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pages
...is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth3 it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the...man with shame as to be found false and perfidious ; aud therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should... | |
 | Henry Nicholas Sealy - 1858 - 690 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...crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which gocth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet." P. 4.: — " Surely the wickedness of falsehood... | |
 | Henry Nicholas Sealy - 1858 - 488 pages
...is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embasetli it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the...goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet." P. 4.: — " Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed... | |
 | 1858 - 812 pages
...Vols. I. and II. London : Chapman & Hall. 1858. IN his Essay on Truth, Lord Bacon has remarked : " There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame...to be found false and perfidious ; and, therefore, Montaigne faith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word lie should be such a disgrace, and... | |
 | Ernest Adams - 1858 - 200 pages
...generally recognised in the seventeenth century ; but the writers of that age frequently disregard them : There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. — Bacon. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise. — Shakspere.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is b'ke alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal...no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to bo found false and perfidious : and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...business ; it will be acknowledged even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing 8 is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of...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... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 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, 1 Born 1561. when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 680 pages
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 | Wit - 1860 - 282 pages
...deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour ; nothing is ever to be attained without it. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. Wise men are instructed by reason ; men of less understanding, by experience : the most ignorant, by... | |
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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... 
