 | 1824 - 284 pages
...must naturally tend to the. disappointment of him that practises it. ' Whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is...suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man hath once forfeited the reputation... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. In a word, whatsoever convenience may be »hen he speaks truth, nor trusted perhaps when he means honestly. When a man has once forfeited the... | |
 | 1824 - 348 pages
...words : that he is not believed' when he sjSfaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honesty ; when a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his...then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. 27. And I have often thought, that God hath, in his great wisdom, hid from men of false and dishonest... | |
 | Amelia Opie - 1825 - 612 pages
...journey than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. In a word, whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is...is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted, perhaps, when he means honestly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over ; but the inconveflience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under...suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man hath once forfeited the reputation... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. In a word, whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is...hath once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. lie is in 'it, let him make use of truth... | |
 | Amelia Alderson Opie - 1827 - 388 pages
...journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. In a word, whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is...is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted perhaps when he means honestly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...troublesome, and needs a great many more to make it good. In a word, whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is...suspicion; so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth; nor trusted when, perhaps, he means honestly. When a man hath once forfeited the reputation... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...passed in review before one or other of these wealthy relicts. — Snectator. DCCCCXII. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he...then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. — Tillutson. DCCCCXIII. There are peculiar ways in men, which discover what they are, through the... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...passed in review before one or other of these wealthy relicts. — Spectator. DCCCCXH. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he...then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. — Tlllotson. Dccccxm. There are peculiar ways in men, which discover what they are, through the most... | |
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In a word, whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over ; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he... 
