 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 from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 32by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...he, "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 from man ; " surecontests of warfare, arrayed upon the plains, without a share in the danger; but nothing is... | |
 | Marcellus F. Cowdery - Ethics - 1856 - 276 pages
...: " If it be well weighed to say that a man lieth, it 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 men." Can you explain in what way a liar is always a great coward towards men ? And how is he bold... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...charge, ' 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 from man.'4 Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.1 For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely...Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH. MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards man ; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.'4 Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith...when ' Christ cometh/ he shall not ' find faith upon earth.' 1 So. Provided. ' So that the doctrine he wholesome and edifying, a want of exactness in the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...he, If it be well weighed, to fay that a Man lieth, is as much as to fay, that he is brave towards God, and a Coward towards Men : For a Lie faces God, and fbrinks from Man. Surely the Wickednefs. of Falfehood and Breach of Faith cannot poffibly be fo highly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.i For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely...Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. Il. OF DEATH. MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children... | |
 | Henry Nicholas Sealy - Banks and banking - 1858 - 690 pages
...the goings of the serpent, which gocth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet." P. 4.: — " Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith...when ' Christ cometh ' he shall not ' find faith upon earth.'" Adam Smith, bv ch. iii. vol. 3. p. 420. : — " The raising the denomination of the coin has... | |
 | William Atkinson - Economics - 1858 - 698 pages
...treated of this great point — the perversion and abandonment of faith — in the following manner : " Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of...expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgment of God upon the generations of men; it being foretold that when Christ cometh, he shall not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.1 For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely...breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, aa in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men ; it... | |
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