 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 468 pages
...upon others, and see them straying in every direction, and wandering in search of the path of life." of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 pages
...upon others, and see them straying in every direction, and wandering in search of the path of life." of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...clear and round 24 dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy25 in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth26 it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like allay in 35 coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better but it embaseth it; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...and round 24 dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy 25 in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth l6 it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1908 - 288 pages
...dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign if there be no remedy ; mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver which may make the metal work better." The most notorious and most unpardonable lapses of this kind in Chesterfield occur when he... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...— Ruskin. Round dealing is the honor of man's nature ; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.— Bacon. Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as detecting another in an untruth.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...— Kuskin. Round dealing is the honor of man's nature ; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in ommandment, that scandalizing one's neighbor with false and malic embaseth it.— Bacon. Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as detecting another in an untruth.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Education - 1909 - 374 pages
...practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may" make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Culture - 1910 - 330 pages
...practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely... | |
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... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. 
