 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal...as to 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,... | |
 | Amelia Opie - Truthfulness and falsehood - 1827 - 280 pages
...clear and sound dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal...belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that docs so overwhelm a man with shame, as to be found false or perfidious : and therefore Montaigne saith... | |
 | Amelia Alderson Opie - 1827 - 388 pages
...that clear and sound 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...belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that does so overwhelm a man with shame, as to be found false or perfidious; and therefore Montaigne saith... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...the honour of man's nature, and mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it:...goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. — Lord Bacon. CCCXXVL Rest unto our souls! — 'tis all we want — the end of all our wishes and... | |
 | Amelia Opie - Truthfulness and falsehood - 1829 - 238 pages
...that dear and sound dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver which may make the metal...winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpant, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. TUere is no vice that does so overwhelm... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal...crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goetii basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. (There is no vice that doth so cover a man with... | |
 | Edward Swaine - Church and state - 1839 - 166 pages
...dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood, is like alloy in coin of gold or silver, which may make the metal work the better,...goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet."* It is good to be liberal ; needful to be just. If morality is more than a matter of convention, if... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal...as to be found false and perfidious ; and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should he such a disgrace,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature : and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the...goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet." " He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who for the time hardly... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature : and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the...goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet." " He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who for the time hardly... | |
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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. There is no vice that doth so cover a... 
