 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...  The Spectator - Página 1321739Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 páginas
...memory, | lest he contradict at one time, I what he said at another ; | but truth is always consistent, I and needs nothing to help it out; | it is always near at hand, I and sits upon our lips ; 1 whereas •Dls-s4m'bl. a lie is troublesome, | and needs a great many... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 páginas
...unspeakable advantage in the business and affairs of life. ' Truth is always consistent with itself, ami 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... | |
 | 1854 - 474 páginas
...unspeakable advantage in the business and affairs of life. " 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 páginas
...wings. He who tells a lie needs twenty others to make it good. 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... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 páginas
...forgotten ; but virtue will remain for ever." — PRICE. " 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... | |
 | Robert Macoy - 1855 - 566 páginas
...thing which is right, and speak the truth from your heart ; for 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 you are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and... | |
 | 1856 - 332 páginas
...despised. Moreover, truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It i.always near at hand, and fits upon our lips, and is ready to spt-st out before we ore aware ; whereas, a lie is troublesome, and set.a man's invention upon the... | |
 | Jules Bué - 1857 - 124 páginas
...lest he contradict at one time what he said at another ; but truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; 'it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and needs a great many more to make it good. Add... | |
 | John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - 248 páginas
...conscience disapproves, we become the destroyers of our own peace. 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... | |
 | John Richardson Major - 1858 - 216 páginas
...their friends, nor near so formidable to their enemies. XXVII. 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... | |
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