 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...a man lielh, is as much to say, as that he is brave tou'ards Cod and a coward towards men. ' For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness...Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - Civilization, Modern - 1926 - 408 pages
...that a man lieth 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...Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. OF DEATH MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is... | |
 | Louis Wann - American essays - 1926 - 564 pages
...judgments and affec- faith cannot possibly be so highly extions, yet truth, which only doth judge pressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and the generations of men; it being fore- whatsoever lieth upon... | |
 | Warner Taylor - American essays - 1927 - 668 pages
...that a man lieth is as much to say as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men." For a lie faces God and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness...cometh, "He shall not find faith upon the earth." OF YOUTH AND AGE (1625) A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...teacheth, that faith, cannot possibly be so highly expressed, the inquiry of truth, which is the love-mak- :k ing, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, judgments of God upon the generations which is the presence... | |
 | 1928 - 72 pages
...patrimonio tuo larga operatione finito ad penuriam forte redigaris. Cf. Bacon's Essays (Of Truth): "Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of...expressed as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgements of God upon the generations of men, it being foretold that, when Christ cometh, he shall... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness...OF DEATH MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly,... | |
 | William Blake - Literary Collections - 1966 - 964 pages
...can Be No Other to Man : what Else Can Be? Civil is Christianity or Religion or whatever is Humane. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith...when "Christ cometh," he shall not "find faith upon earth". Bacon put an End to Faith. Page 5-6. Of Death. You shall read in some of the friars books of... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...'conclusion'. It is a forceful statement of the viciousness of dishonesty, based on a pun on the word 'faith':1 Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith...Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. [VI, 379] The full weight of righteous condemnation is brought to bear on 'dishonesty' by equating... | |
 | George Steiner - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 388 pages
...not the Truth of Christ, but of Pilate." The essay concludes on the theme of Ivan Karamazov's fable: "it being foretold that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth." Blake interjected: "Bacon put an End to Faith." 3 Such exchanges across time or in the divided mind... | |
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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... 
