 ... 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
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1873 - 382 pages
...which lights grim Care and stern Reality in their daily pilgrimage through tho world. — Dickens. 5. Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason,...word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such au odious charge. Saith he, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lictli, is as much to say, as... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1873 - 366 pages
...daily pilgrimage through tho world. — Dickens. 5. Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired tho reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith ho, " If it bo well weighed, to say that a man licth, is as much to say, as that ho is bravo towards... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 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 and perfidious ; and therefore Montaigne3 saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie* should be such a disgrace,... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1873 - 598 pages
...full knowledge of tme morality, I would send him to no other book but the New Testament. — Locke. 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 men ; for a lie faces God and shrinks... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 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...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth BO cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious;...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 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...And, therefore, Montaigne saith prettily, when he enquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 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, 38 when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - Literature and morals - 1874 - 440 pages
...serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet." J Indeed, " there is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious." In the " Essay on Adversity," which, compared with prosperity, is called " the greater benediction,... | |
 | Eliza Rhyl Davies - 1875 - 278 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...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 men; for a lie faces God and shrinks from... | |
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