 ... 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 cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 375by Francis Bacon - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1858
...book. 2 veritatem aut potiut vcracitatem, 3 upertam el minime fucatam in negotiis gerendis ratiotum. doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false...and such an odious charge ? Saith he, If it be well wet 'g tied, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 550 pages
...Truth, which is the enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature.' ' There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious.' This holds good when falsehood is practised solely for a man's private advantage : but, in a zealous... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858
...no vice that 1 Lucretius. See the beginning of the second book. 2 verilatem out poilus veracitateni. doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false...that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.1 For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - English essays - 1858 - 588 pages
...feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious ; aud therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired...should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, ' If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God,... | |
 | 1858
...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 as 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 such an... | |
 | Ernest Adams - English language - 1858 - 183 pages
...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
...upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to bo found false and perfidious : and therefore Montaigne...of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an « Lucre*, ii. init. Comp. Adv. of Learning, i. 8. 5. odious charge ? Saitb he, If it be wall weighed,... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 432 pages
...goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false...perfidious ; and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, 1 Born 1561. when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1860
...things — full of melancholy and indisposition ; and unpleasing to themselves. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and eettleth in it, that... | |
 | Wit - 1860
...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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