 | Warner Taylor - American essays - 1927 - 668 pages
...vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the...the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious 1 Lucretius, a Roman poet and philosopher of the Epicurean school. 2 This figure is drawn from the... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the...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... | |
 | Thailand - 1935 - 38 pages
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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. And therefore... 
