 | 1739 - 312 pages
...Sufpicion, fo that he is not believed ' when he fpeaks Truth, nor trufted perhaps when he means honelUy. When a Man has once forfeited the Reputation of his Integrity, he is fet faft, and nothing will then ferve his turn, neither Truth nor Falfhood. ' AND I have often thought,... | |
 | English literature - 1773 - 394 pages
...fufpicion, fo that he is not believed when he fpeaki truth, nor trufted perhaps when he means honeftly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is fet fail, and nothing will then ferve his turn, neither truth nor falfhood. And I have ofien thoughi... | |
 | Historical mirror - 1776 - 308 pages
...fufpicion, fo that he is not believed when he f peaks truth, nor trufted perhaps when he means honeftly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is fet faft, and nothing will then ferve his turn, neither truth nor falfhood. I have likewife often thought,... | |
 | 1786 - 670 pages
...fufpicion, fo that he is not believed when he Ipeaks truth, nor trufted perhaps when he means honcftly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is let fait, and nothing will then ferve his turn, neither truth nor falfhood. ' And I have often thought,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...1'uipicion, fo that he is not believed when he fpeaks truth, nor truftt-d perhaps when he means honeiily. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is let faft, and nothing will then ferve his turn, neither truth nor falfhood. And I have often thought... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...fufpicion, fo that he is not believed when he (peaks truth, nor trufted perhaps when he means honeftly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is fet fail, and nothing will then fcrve his turn, neither truth nor falihood. And I have often thought... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English imprints - 1801 - 364 pages
...fufpicion, fo that he is not believed v/hen he fpeaks tvuth, nor trufted when he peihnps means honeftly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is fet faft, and nothing will then ferve his turn, neither truth rsor fa!fhood. " And I have often thought,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...travelling in a plain beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. In a word, whatsoever...then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. ' And I have often thought, that God hath, in his great wisdom, hid from men of false and dishonest... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he...then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.' R. N° 104. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, nil. QuaUs equos Threissafatigat Harpalyce V1RG. .*ni 316. With such array... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he...then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.' R. N° 104. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, n11. Quails equos Threissafatigat HarpalyceV1RO. ^ni 316. With such array... | |
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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... 
