| William Enfield - 1827 - 412 sayfa
...heirs, ns certainly as he can his lands, a noble descent would then indeed be a very valuable privilege. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...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... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 sayfa
...could be delivered as a precept only by. him who lived and died to establish it by his example. Slnon. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...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... | |
| Ethics - 1828 - 234 sayfa
...sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. Truth is the basis of... | |
| William Scott - 1829 - 420 sayfa
...he contradict at one time, what he said at another. But truth is always consistent with it.'.'i-lf, 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 OHC trick needs a... | |
| John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 sayfa
...trust and confidence in him, which is an unspeakable advantage in the business and affairs of life. 6. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...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... | |
| Amelia Opie - 1832 - 232 sayfa
...following quotation, but I refer my readers to No. 352 of the Spectator. " Truth is always consistent widi itself, and needs nothing to help it out : it is always near at band., and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop oat, before we are aware : whereas a LIE is troublesome,... | |
| Watson Adams - 1834 - 278 sayfa
...of integrity, who hears without any design to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive. ^ Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it. It is always near at hand ; it sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. Whereas... | |
| 1836 - 574 sayfa
...a very shortened acquaintance with the principles of Divine truth. " Truth (it has been well said) is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out :" and shall not this be pre-eminently claimed for the truth of God ? Every distortion of truth's features... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 sayfa
...trust and confidence in him, which is an unspeakable advantage in the business and affairs of life. ' Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...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... | |
| 1837 - 352 sayfa
...virtue is preferable to the bare speculative knowledge of all arts and sciences together.— Boyle. 276. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...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... | |
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