 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 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...  The Essays - Page 3by Francis Bacon - 1908 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...disgrace, and such an odious charge: " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lies, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...disgrace, and such an odious charge, " 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 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... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...and such an odious charge? "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 towards men : for " a He faces God, and shrinks from man," Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith, cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...and such an odious charge, " 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 " 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...God, and a coward towards " men. For a lye faces God, and shrinks from man." Surely the wickedness of falshood, and breach of faith, cannot possibly...highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being foretold, that when Christ... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...odious charge ? Saith he, " If it be well " weighed, to say that a man ly eth, is as much as to say, " that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards " men. For a lye faces God, and shrinks from man." Surely the wickedness of falshood, and breach of faith, cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...disgrace, and such an odious charge, " 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 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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...disgrace, and such an odious charge, " 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 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... | |
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