 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 540 pages
...shame as to be found false and perfidious. Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...found false and perfidious : and therefore Montaigne 27 saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such 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... | |
 | Edwin Bormann - 1906 - 268 pages
...Montaigne, with the words : And therefore Mountaigny saith prettily, when he enquired the reason, why the word of the Lie, should be such a Disgrace, and such an Odious Charge ? Saith he ... Wherever did he get the form " Mountaigny " from ? The old way of writing that man's... | |
 | Herbert Raine Curlewis - Jurisprudence - 1906 - 324 pages
...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. ' To say that a man lieth is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.'... | |
 | Charles Crawford - English literature - 1907 - 172 pages
...found false and perfidious. And therefore Mountaigny saith prettily, when he enquired the reason, why the word of the Lie, should be such a Disgrace, and such an Odious Charge? Saith he, "If it be well weighed, To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...the reason why the word of the Lie should be such a Disgrace, and such an Odious Charge, Saith he, If it be well weighed, To say that a man lieth, is as much to say as 75 that he is brave towards God and a Coward towards Men. For a Lie faces God, and shrinkes... | |
 | Alfred Horatio Upham - Comparative literature - 1908 - 586 pages
...where Montaigne is mentioned by name, — the first essay, on " Truth." Here he is quoted as saying, "If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 pages
...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 ? Saith he, If it be well 1 containers 1 devfl's-wine • Lucretius ' Epicureans 4 alloy weighed, to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 pages
...the reason why the word of the lie should be 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 and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
 | Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 pages
...lie should be such a dis6 Lucretius. 7 Epicureans. grace and such an odious charge. Saith he, // /'/ be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks... | |
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Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such 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... 
