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" ... 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 3
by Francis Bacon - 1868 - 641 pages
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The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of ...

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...
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Century Types of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged

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...
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Progressive Readings in Prose

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,...
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Century Types of English Literature Chronologically Arranged

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...
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English Prose and Poetry

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...
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Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to Clarendon

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...
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Elizabethan Verse and Prose (non-dramatic)

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...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

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...
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Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

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...
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The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and Morall

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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