 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...disgrace, and such an odious charge: " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lies, 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 expressed,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...inquired the reason why the word of the lie 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, and a coward towards men: for a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...enquired the reason why the word of the lie, 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, and a coward towards men : for " a He faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...inquired the reason why the word of the lie 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, and a coward " towards men : for a lie faces God, and " shrinks... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...reason why the word of the lie 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 as to "say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men." For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...the reason why the word of the lie 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 as to say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men." For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as mucb as to say that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men : for a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...odious charge ? Saith he, " If it be well " weighed, to say that a man ly eth, is as much as to say, " that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards " men. For a lye faces God, and shrinks from man." Surely the wickedness of falshood, and breach of faith, cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...inquired the reason, why the word of the lie 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, and a coward towards men: for a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...inquired the reason why the word of the lie 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, and a coward towards men : for a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
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If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men." For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. 
