 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...clear and round9 dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses aro the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...for wise. But, in his Essay on Truth, he is obliged to admit that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, though the metal is debased by it. And in practice Bacon found it necessary to use this alloy. ' Pity... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...Dissimulation. Round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. LORD BACON. The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like allay in coin of gold and silver: which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - Statesmen - 1877 - 338 pages
...Truth, Bacon declares, is noble, and falsehood is base ; yet\ " mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, \ which may make the metal work the better." Theory on such subjects is generally purer than practice, and Bacon's theory is summed up in these... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...we spake of before. ing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth 29 it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...clear and round23 dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth29 it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Bookbinding - 1880 - 686 pages
...last. Clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature, and mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. Honor, like reputation and character, displays itself in little acts. It is of slow growth.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...Dissimulation. Round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in 0 C embaseth it. LORD BACON. 228 229 Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with (ruth... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...clear and round 9 dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses arc the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely... | |
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... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it: for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. 
