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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... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page xl
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...that a man lieth, is as much to say, as thai he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a forgetting of my care, return! And let the day be...dreams, the images of day-desires, To model forth the VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God _ and a coward towards men. For a use their pleasure only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee,...Till sapped their strength, and every part unsound, VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for...
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The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts

William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 540 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...Christ cometh, he. shall not find faith upon the earth. OF DEATH (1625) Men fear Death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children...
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A Book of English Literature, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 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...being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he shall not [no find faith upon the earth. ESSAY V.— OF ADVERSITY It was an high speech of Seneca (after the...
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The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts

William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 540 pages
...say as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks frorri man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach...Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. OF DEATH (1625) Men fear Death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children...
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The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts

William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 576 pages
...that a man lieth is as much to say us. that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. jior a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness...faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as. in Jhat it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men; it being foretold,...
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The Warner Library, Volume 2

Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 698 pages
...that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave toward God and a coward toward men." For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness...cometh, "he shall not find faith upon the earth." OF REVENGE From the ' Essays ' REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs...
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Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, Volume 41

Comparative linguistics - 1917 - 722 pages
...prophesy, Sorrow on love here after shall attend: It shall be waited on with jealousy. Bacon, Essays I, 4. Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as that it shall be the last peal to call the judgment of God upon the generations of men, it being foretold,...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards man." For a man and Company 2. Of Travel Travel in the younger sort is a part of education ; in the elder a part of experience....
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Essays, English and American

Raymond Macdonald Alden - American essays - 1920 - 492 pages
...that a man lietlt is as much to sat/ as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness...generations of men; it being foretold that, when Christ cometh,18 he shall not find faith upon the earth. OF REVENGE1 REVEKGE is a kind of wild justice; which...
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