 | Abel Boyer - 1702 - 404 էջ
...clear and round Dealing is the Honour of Man's Nature•, and that a mixture of FalfoooJ, is like A Hay in Coin of Gold and Silver, which may make the Metal work the better, but it embafes it. There is no Vice that does fo cover a Man with Shame, as to be found falfe and perfidious... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1720 - 528 էջ
...praftife it not, that clear and round Dealing is the Honour of Man's Nature: And that mixture of Falfliood is like Alloy in Coin of Gold and Silver, which may make the Metal work the better, but it embafeth it. For thefe winding and crooked Courfes, are the goings of the Serpent, which goeth bafely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1720 - 556 էջ
...and round Dealing is the Honour of Man's Nature: And that mixture of Falftiood is like Alloy in Com of Gold and Silver, which may make the Metal work the better, but ;'t embafeth it. For thefe winding and 'crooked Courfes, are the goings of the Serpent, which goeth... | |
 | 1801 - 446 էջ
...candid dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that a mixture of falsehood is like alloyin gold or silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth the coin ; for these windings and crooked turnings are the goings of the serpent, which moves basely... | |
 | 1803 - 228 էջ
...Great men must go and meet truth ; if they are desirous to know it ; for none will carry it fothem. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be false and perfidious. It is easy to tell a lie, hard to tell but a lie. One lie needs many more to... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 430 էջ
...Baconiana." " Round dealing is the honour of man's nature; and a mixture of falshood is like allay in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. " Children inctease the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. '* That envy is... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 478 էջ
...Baconiana." "Round dealing is the honour of man's nature; and a mixture of falshood is like allay in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it cmbaseth it. " Children increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. " He... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 586 էջ
...of the Obsequium, to the odium of the Veritas,] that, clear and round dealing is the Honour of man's nature : and that, mixture of falsehood is like alloy...courses are the goings of the Serpent ; which goeth Lastl» upon the belly, and not upon the feet." The contemptible Frivolity of the times cannot suffer,... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 588 էջ
...of the Obsequium, to the odium of the Veritas,] that, clear and round dealing is the Honour of man's nature : and that, mixture of falsehood is like alloy...which may make the metal work the better, but, it einbaseth it. For, these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the Serpent ; which goeih basely... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 էջ
...clear and round dealing is the honour of mans' nature, and that mixture of falshood is like an allay in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but embases it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goes basely... | |
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To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that 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... 
