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Show Bravery and Cowardice of a Lie. Thero is no vice that doth bo cover n man with shame as to bo" found false and perfidious, wroto Sir Francis Fran-cis Bacon. And therefore Montalgno ralth prettily when ho Inquired tho reason why tho word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, Salth he: "If It be well weighed, to say that a man llcth Is as much as to say that he la bravo toward Qod and a coward toward men. Tor a lie faceB Qod, and shrinks from man." Surely tho wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed as In that It shall be the last peal to call the judgments judg-ments of Ood upon the generations of men: It lelng foretold that when Christ cometh "He Bhnll not find faith upon tho earth." |