 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...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...when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." BACON. ON THE FLEETNESS OF LIFE. NOT only our connexions with all things around us change,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...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...when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." BACON. ON THE FLEETNESS OF LIFE. NOT only our connexions with all things around us change,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
...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...when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." BACON. ON THE FLEETNESS OF LIFE. NOT only our connexions with all things around us change,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...peul, there shall lie done A deed of dreadful note. Shahs fcare. Sliu-lielh. The breach of faith cannot be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of (lod upon men. Bafm's Kaaiii. They were saluted by the way, with a fair peal of artillery from the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men : for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.'j/ Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith...cannot possibly be so highly expressed as in that it .--hall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being foretold... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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...cometh " he shall not find faith upon the earth." IL OF DEATH. Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark : and as that natural fear in children... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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...falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so higbly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations... | |
 | Israel - 1841 - 1130 pages
...things when it shall arrive, as arrive it shall; this, with its consequent falsehood and violence, shall be " the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men." " Behold, Jehovah. cometh as a fire, and his chariot as a whirlwind;" and may we not almost hear the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...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...cometh, ' He shall not find faith upon the earth.' As this is our first specimen, we may stop for a moment to notice the characteristics of Bacon's manner... | |
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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... 
