 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...it riot, that clear and round 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 are the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely... | |
 | John Arthur Roebuck - Great Britain - 1852 - 524 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehoods is like alloy of coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.'1 Sir Robert Peel gravely said, when speaking of George IV., that ' Posterity will regard... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...practise it not, that clear and round 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 are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like allay have more such." 214. Crassus the orator had a fish which the Romans called embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1855 - 846 pages
...for such success in the words of Lord Bacon, who says, " that mixture of falsehood in man's nature is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it." In conclusion, we must express our regret that this book has appeared in the cheap literature... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...it not, that clear and round2 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 embaseth3 it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honor 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 are the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...train. Dryden. CCCXXV. Clear aud round dealing is the honour 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 : for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...practise it not, that clear and sound dealing is the honor 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 are the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...it not, that clear and round2 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 embaseth3 it ; for these winding and crooked courses are 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. 
