... in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so... Bacon's Essays - Page 3by Francis Bacon - 1868 - 641 pagesFull view - About this book
| Goold Brown - 1862 - 362 pages
...lights grim Care and stern Keality in iheir daily pilgrimage through the world. — Dickens. •-*• 5. Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason,...should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith he, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave... | |
| George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the are it out of, and what saving we could hit upon that should be an equivalent. Saith he, // it be well weighed, to say that a man licth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards... | |
| Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 pages
...may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the...as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne3 saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace,... | |
| George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...make the metal } work the better, but it embaseth it} For these ^winding and crooked courses are the Century Co. rThere is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious^ And therefore... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the ю Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills...grassy hills. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER Saith he, 7/ // be well weighed, to say that a man lielh, is as much to say, as that he is brave tou'ards... | |
| Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 pages
...may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the...should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge? Saith he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth is as much to say as that he is brave towards... | |
| George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 pages
...may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the...should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge — saith he, "If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say as that he is brave... | |
| 1909 - 378 pages
...better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and • Lucretius. * Epicureans. crooked courses are the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely upon the...should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith he, // it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards... | |
| B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent; 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...make the Metall worke the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding, and crooked courses, are the Goings of the Serpent; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the Feet. 70 There is no Vice, that doth so cover a Man with Shame, as to be found false, and perfidious. And... | |
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