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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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A Selection of Faithful Sayings and Ancient Wisdom

Francis Bacon - Mythology, Classical - 1982 - 78 pages

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Dryden's Dualities

Ruth Salvaggio - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 116 pages

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Language in Wycherley's Plays: Seventeenth-century Language Theory and Drama

James Thompson - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 176 pages

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The Essays

Francis Bacon - Fiction - 1985 - 292 pages

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Les Essais, Book 3

Michel de Montaigne - 1992 - 624 pages

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The Book of Virtues

William J. Bennett - Education - 1993 - 836 pages

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - Fiction - 1996 - 872 pages

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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 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...it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as 1 although 2 perceptions 3 passions 4 trust in 5 thing created 6 time of rest, cessation of labour...

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The Advancement of Learning; Colours of Good and Evil; the Essays

Francis Bacon - 2000 - 445 pages

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The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose

Alan Rudrum, Joseph Black, Holly Faith Nelson - Literary Collections - 2000 - 1344 pages

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