 | Charles Palmer (Deputy Serjeant of the House of Commons.) - 1748 - 342 pages
...tongue falter, to make good a lye with thefecret glofles of double or referved meaning. 1685. Arijlotle lays it down for a maxim, That a brave man is clear in his dijcourfe, and keeps clofe to truth. And Plutarch calls lying, The vice of a Jlave. " 1686. Sincerity... | |
 | Watson Adams - 1834 - 290 pages
...the mind along with it. Men readily embrace the dictates of sincere reason. Turkish Spy. Aristotle lays it down for a maxim, that a brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth. And Plutarch calls lying the voice of a slave. Nothing can be... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction VOL.XXXII - 1838 - 474 pages
...mean and a cowardly quality, and altogether unbecoming a person of honour. Aristotle (Nicuin. iv. 1.) lays it down for a maxim, that a brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to the truth ; and Plutarch calls lying the vice of a sUve. 2. Lying in... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...mean and cowardly quality, and altogether unbecoming a person of honour. Aristotle (Nicom. iv., 1). lays it down for a maxim, that a brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to the truth ; and Plutarch calls lying the vice of a vice. 2. Lying in... | |
 | Horae - 1851 - 414 pages
...European Miflionary, what literature or what fcience can you have ?— DR. ADAM FERGUSON. Bravery. BRAVE man is clear in his difcourfe, and keeps clofe to Truth. — ARISTOTLE. 2. IT denotes no great bravery of mind to do that out of a defire of fame, which we... | |
 | 1853 - 158 pages
...LYING. LYING is a mean and cowardly quality, and altogether unbecoming a person of honour. Aristotle lays it down for a maxim, that a brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to the truth ; and Plutarch calls lying the vice of a slave. Lying in discourse... | |
 | 1857 - 498 pages
...LYING. LYING is a mean and cowardly qualitj, and altogether unbecoming a person of honour. Aristotle lays it down for a maxim, that a brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to the truth ; and Plutarch calls lying the vice of a slave. Lying in discourse... | |
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Aristotle lays it down for a maxim, that a brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to the truth ; and Plutarch calls lying the vice of a slave. 