 | Maxims - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 242
...ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that have not sense enough to be honest. Nothing appears... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good — Tillotson. Jfitoltaj. THE DESIRE OF FAME. Great kings Dnd conquering nations have been the subject... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 766
...ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. It is like building upon a false foundation, which continually stands in need of props to shore it up, and proves at last more... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. It is like building upon a false foundation, which continually stands in need of props to shore it up, and proves at last more... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention on, the rack, and one trick needs a great many more of the same kind to make it good. — Tohnson. TRUTH. — Afier all, the most natural beauty in the... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. Add to all this, that sincerity is the most compendious wisdom, and an excellent instrument for the... | |
 | 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. It is like building upon a false foundation, which continually stands in need of props to shore it up, and proves at last more... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 120
...ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good." — TILLOTSON. " Compassion is an emotion of which you never ought to be ashamed. Never sport with... | |
 | John Richardson Major - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. It is like building upon a false foundation, which constantly stands in need of props to shore it up, and proves at las more chargeable... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...ready to drop out before we are iware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and seta a tuan's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. It is like building upon a false fonndation, which continually stands in need of props to shore it up, and proves at last more... | |
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Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one... 
