 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1872 - 274 pages
...return."—Milton. 9. " O. what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive."—Scott. 10. " He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one." —Pope. 11. " Predominant habits of warfare are totally irreconcilable with those of industry."—Hallam.... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one. Get your enemies to read your works, in order to mend them ; for your friend is so much your second-self,... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1872 - 88 pages
...what remained as yet ' unrivalled ' on the other. More judiciously Professor Bain alters, " He that tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes...he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one," into " for, to maintain one, he must invent twenty more," putting the emphatic words in their... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 188 pages
...give a conspicuous position to those words on which the meaning chiefly depends. EXAMPLE. — He that tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes...must be forced to invent twenty more, to maintain one. Here, in the latter part of this sentence, the principal assertion intended is the necessity of... | |
 | 1881 - 946 pages
...laid out so as to command the finest views of the magnificent scenery portant objects of philosophy. HE who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. of the Rocky Mountains. THE steam-whaler Jan Mayen on her way to New Foundhind encountered a hurricane... | |
 | 1873 - 484 pages
...Ballon. Love labor; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. — William Penn. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...must be forced to. invent twenty more to maintain one. — Poft~ Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 pages
...conjunction ; IX. To point out all the Interjections, and give a definition of the interjection. MODEL. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to tell twenty more to maintain that one. — POPE. Lie and task aro nouns. A Noun is a word, etc. See... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1874 - 342 pages
...way. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy his crimes. He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one. Among the base merit begets envy; among the noble, emulation. [Remark 2.] George desires to learn.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1874 - 412 pages
...parenthesis, as if it were any help to a lame man to take away his crutches. Examples. — " He that tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; {or he must be forced to invent twenty more, to maintain one." Here, in the latter branch of the sentence,... | |
 | John Murdoch - 1875 - 366 pages
...want of truthfulness only makes things worse. Liars are generally discovered in the end. Pope says, " He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one." " 0 what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive !" " The lip of truth shall... | |
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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. 
