 ... 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.  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Seite 4von Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 Seiten
...goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no yice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montagne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lye should be such a disgrace,... | |
 | 1821 - 416 Seiten
...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...as to be found false and perfidious: and therefore Montaign&saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 Seiten
...are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There i? no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to...Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, *hy the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, saith he, " If it be... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 Seiten
...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...as to 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,... | |
 | Samuel Walter Burgess - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...agents have perished, and when their remembrance has almost sunk into oblivion. § 4. Treachery. — " There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as perfidy ."f The most atrocious kind of falsehood is not personation, for this is not necessarily accompanied... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 Seiten
...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...Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason tvhy the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, " If it be well weighed,... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1832 - 602 Seiten
...is essential, to the same ends, and in the same degree." '• There is no vice," says lord Bacon, " that doth so cover " a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious." The case of other members of the masonic fraternity, however, who have disclosed the secrets of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 Seiten
...winding and 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...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,... | |
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