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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...

Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ... - Page 88
by George Walker - 1825 - 615 pages
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Selections: With Essays by Macaulay & S. R. Gardiner

Francis Bacon - 1958 - 218 pages

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Emerson's Plutarch

Edmund Grindlay Berry - Literary Criticism - 1961 - 360 pages

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Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays

Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler - Anthologies - 1963 - 600 pages

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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages

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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

Literature - 1909 - 378 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...such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith he, // it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God...

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