 ... 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 man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.  Texas Review - Page 3511922Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...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 man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, 38 when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - 1874 - 440 pages
...are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet." J Indeed, " there is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious." In the " Essay on Adversity," which, compared with prosperity, is called " the greater benediction,... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...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 man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And, therefore, Montaigne saith prettily, when he enquired the reason why the word of the lie should... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...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 man with shame as to be found false and perfidious : and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should... | |
 | Christian text-book - 1874 - 808 pages
...Christian's head : • One view of Jesus as He is Will strike all sin for ever dead. Cmupcr. REFLECTIONS. ""THERE is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to •*• be discovered in a lie : for as Montaigne saith — " A liar would be brave towards God, while he is a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...it—and the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it—is the sovereign good of human nature.' ' There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, astooe found false and perfidious.' This holds good when falsehood is practised solely for a man's... | |
 | Eliza Rhyl Davies - 1875 - 278 pages
...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 man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...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 man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...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 man with shame as to be found false and perfidious ; 70 and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 412 pages
...crooked courses aro 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 man with shame as to be found false and perfidious ; and therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the •word of the lie should... | |
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