 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...that gloominess which is apt to hang about us in those dark disconsolate seasons.—Adaison. XXXIX. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.—Pope. XL. Music so softens and disarms the mind, That not an arrow does resistance find, Thus... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1835 - 270 pages
...time. Parly is the madness of many, for the gain of a few. Superstition is the spleen of the soul. He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task...forced to invent twenty more, to maintain that one. Some people will never learn any Iking, for this reason, because they understand every thing too soon.... | |
 | Golden rules - 1835 - 44 pages
...manners ought to be simple and natural, and of course they will be engaging. — Dr. Blair. A Liar. — He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one-— Pope. True Nobility. — Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue, Displays distinguished... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...great deal. Very few men, properly speaking, live at present ; but are providing to live another time. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. We should take a prudent care for the future, i Ecclus. xix. 13—17. but so as to enjoy the present.... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - 1843 - 334 pages
...intricaey of the labyrinth increases, we are left entangled in our snare. — Dr. Blair. A LIAR. — He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. — Pope. HABIT. — Select that course of life which is the most excellent, and custom will render... | |
 | Nicolas Hamel - 1844 - 480 pages
...a aimer so princes are obliged to protect us. ainsi de proteger EULE 138. — Infinitive with pour. He who tells a lie, (is not sensible) how great a task 77 faire (ir) mensonge m ne savoir (ir) pas quelle * • tadti he undertakes ; for he may be forced... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. Lying. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one. ARBUTHNOT. (Died in 1735.) [DR. JOHN ARBUTHNOT, the friend of Pope, Swift, Gay, and Prior, was... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 pages
...pause should be made where one or more words are omitted in a sentence to avoid repetition. Example : " He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty morev to maintain that one." A pause is made after more, his being omitted: twenty more lies is the... | |
 | Thornton MacMahon - 1846 - 260 pages
...considered, we should no more laugh at one for having his brains cracked, than for having his head broke. He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task...forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. Dastardly men are like sorry horses, who haye but just spirit and mettle enough left to be mischievous.... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pages
...crimes. The wise man is happy when he gains his own approbation ; the fool when he gains that of others. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one. Among the base, merit begets envy ; among the noble, emulation. « Mr. Goold Brown asserts that... | |
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He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. 
