 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.i For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood...Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. Il. OF DEATH. MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children... | |
 | Henry Nicholas Sealy - Banks and banking - 1858 - 690 pages
...the goings of the serpent, which gocth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet." P. 4.: — " Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith...when ' Christ cometh ' he shall not ' find faith upon earth.'" Adam Smith, bv ch. iii. vol. 3. p. 420. : — " The raising the denomination of the coin has... | |
 | William Atkinson - Economics - 1858 - 698 pages
...treated of this great point — the perversion and abandonment of faith — in the following manner : " Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of...expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgment of God upon the generations of men; it being foretold that when Christ cometh, he shall not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.1 For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood...breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, aa in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men ; it... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Philosophy - 1858 - 620 pages
...that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards man ; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.'4 Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so higluy expressed as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...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 man." Surely the wickedness of falsehood...generations of men : it being foretold, that when "Chrisi cometh," he shall not " find faith upon the earth." II. OF DEATH.* MEN fear death, as children... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...he is brave towards God, and a coward towards j^n.5 For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Suray the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot...the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it bein°j foretold that when Christ cometh, he shall not find f aim v/pon the earth.6 , * II. OF DEATH.... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1859 - 802 pages
...thau in the declaration, that it shall be the last peal 58 Hidden Toil — The Peacock. [February, to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men ; it being foretold that when Christ shall come, he will not find "faith upon the earth." HIDDEN TOIL. THE EDITOR. ONCE a great author wrote... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...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 man." Surely the wickedness of falsehood...when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." OF STUDIES. — (BACON.) STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...entitled ' Of Death,' had appeared in the edition of 1612. We will give the greater part of it : — Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural tear in children is increased with tales, so a the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death as... | |
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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 man." Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed,... 
