| Jean Middlemass - 1873 - 336 pages
...his own falseness. Montaigne says, ' If it be well weighed, to say a man lieth, is as much as to say he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men; for a lie faces God and shrinks from man.' And so it was with Sir Henry — for bitterly as he regretted the sin he had committed before God,... | |
| Goold Brown - English language - 1873 - 366 pages
...daily pilgrimage through tho world. — Dickens. 5. Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired tho reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith ho, " If it bo well weighed, to say that a man licth, is as much to say, as that ho is bravo towards... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...shame as to be found false and perfidious. And, therefore, Montaigne saith prettily, when he enquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such...a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave toward God and a coward towards men ;" for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness... | |
| Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 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...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,... | |
| Eliza Rhyl Davies - 1875 - 278 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...towards men; for a lie faces God and shrinks from Man."—BACON. MEANWHILE Helen had been returning from a walk with Louis, when, as she reached the... | |
| Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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...man lieth, is as much as to say . that he is brave tmuards God, and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1876 - 412 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...men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man."* в — 8. (G) withheld . . me, God helps the conscientious. suffered . . her," laid him under mental... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious ; 70 and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the...that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards 75 man ; for a lie faces God, and shritiks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...prettily4 when he inquired the reason why tho word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such un me again to Hamburg. This he did a year after we had seen one another the first time. to say as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men." For a lie faces God and shrinks from... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...shame as to be found false and perfidious : and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquireth 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,... | |
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