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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors - Page 10
by Manual - 1809
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...a disgrace, and such an odious charge? Saith he, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lyeth, is as much as to say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men. For a lye faces God, and shrinks from man." Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith, cannot...
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The essays, i-(lviii) or, Counsels civil and moral of Francis lord ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...such a disgrace and such an odious charge, saith he, 'Jf it be well weighed to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God...of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being...
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Masterpieces in English Literature: And Lessons in the English ..., Volume 1

Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 pages
...should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, ''If it be well weighed, to say that a man lietli, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God,...of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men, it being...
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The Essays (I-LVIII) Or, Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...such a disgrace and such an odious charge, saith he, 'If it be well weighed to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God...of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott. Text only, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...disgrace and such an odious charge — saith ie 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 ?5 man ; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...say, that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards man ; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.'' Surely...of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed as in that it shall be the lasfrpeal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, " If it he well weighed, to say that a. man lieth finis rtrum — an fora lie faces God, and shrinks from man." LORD BACON : Essay I., Of Truth. A lie should be trampled...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 pages
...a disgrace, and such an odious charge ? Saith he, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man licth, things appeared smaller to him than to people who...fourpence-halfpenny a day. The characteristic peculiarity of his in that it shall be the last peal to call tho judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being...
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Text-book of Prose from Burke, Webster, and Bacon: With Notes, and Sketches ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...such a disgrace and such an odious charge: saith he, "If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God...of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men; it being...
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Bacon's Essays, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards ?5 man ; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely...of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being...
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