 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 216 pages
...be found false and perfidious :) and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when ne inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and suet an odious charge, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to . say that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1838 - 832 pages
...be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montagne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace,...well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840
...and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should he such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, saith...well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from... | |
 | David Hoffman - Etiquette - 1841 - 385 pages
...day they grow older. WHITE LYING. LIT. Lord Bacon notes a sensible remark of Montaigne, 'that a liar is brave towards God, and a coward towards men : for a lie faces God and shrinks from man' — and this is true in every departure from veracity, where the matter is addressed to a sane mind.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 372 pages
...found false 4* and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he enquireth the reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace,...well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men." For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846
...be found false and perfidious. And therefore Mountaigny saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, Why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace,...well weighed, To say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave tuwards God, and a coward towards men.' For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846
...an odious charge ? Saith he, 'If it be well weighed, To say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.' For a lie faces God, and shrinks from roan. Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith, cannot possibly be so highly expressed,... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 132 pages
...be found false and perfidious : and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850
...prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lie should be such ESSAYS CIVIL AND MORAL. as to say, that he is brave towards God, Hnd a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851
...be found false and perfidious : and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace,...well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men*. " For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
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... 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... 
