 ... 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.  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Page 4by Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Wit - 1860 - 282 pages
...deficiencies. Nothing 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... | |
 | 1860 - 544 pages
...men, poor shrunken 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pages
...the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature.' ' Tliere is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to fa found false and perfidious.'' This holds good when falsehood is practised solely for a man's private... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...around us a calm and steady light, more solid, more equal, and more lasting. Blair. LIAR— a Coward. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be discovered in a lie ; for as Montaigne saitb — "A liar would be brave towards God, while ho is a... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 pages
...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...man with shame as to be found false and perfidious." "MEN in great places are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1863 - 436 pages
...jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer." (This, the poet Cowper has finely used in his "Task.") "There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious." "It is a happy thing when religion is well contained within the true bond of unity." "There is no passion... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature.' ' Thcre 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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...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...; and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he incurred the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, "If... | |
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