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And also by this foresaid Joseph a man is not only learned to eschew the deceits of his enemies, but also oft a man is led by him to the perfect knowing of himself; and all after that a man knoweth himself, thereafter he profiteth in the knowing of God, of whom he is the image and the likeness. And therefore it is that after Joseph is Benjamin born.
These sounding contrasts are mere deceits, because if you look nearly into the results of this science of which we talk so proudly, you will perceive that they confirm the results of induction from history. Astronomy, for instance, is born of superstition; geometry from the desire of gain; physics from a futile curiosity; all of them, even morals, from human pride.
Now the Angry man is not insidious, nor is Anger, but quite open: but Lust is: as they say of Venus, "Cyprus-born Goddess, weaver of deceits" Or Homer of the girdle called the Cestus, "Persuasiveness cheating e'en the subtlest mind."
How was an English soldier who valued his knightly word how were English diplomatists among whom one of the most famous then a lad of twenty, secretary to Lord Essex in the Netherlands had poetically avowed that "simple truth was highest skill," to deal with the thronging Spanish deceits sent northward by the great father of lies who sat in the Escorial?
Burr," said Mary, walking up to him, and looking him full in the eyes, with an energy that for the moment bore down his practised air of easy superiority, "I wish to speak to you for a moment, as one immortal soul should to another, without any of those false glosses and deceits which men call ceremony and good manners.
The little insincerities incident to their almost daily intercourse, the small deceits made use of in shopping, marketing, making visits, or sending invitations, were no such mighty matters as to jeopardise the happiness, or even the comfort of any one with eyes keen enough to detect, and with skill and will to circumvent them.
Over the deep grave of my secret I must heap an impenetrable heap of false smiles and words: cunning frauds, treacherous laughter and a mixture of all light deceits would form a mist to blind others and be as the poisonous simoon to me. I, the offspring of love, the child of the woods, the nursling of Nature's bright self was to submit to this? I dared not. How must I escape?
Candish, thrilling the church from floor to vaulted, roof, "'and from the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil." "'Good Lord, deliver us!" swelled the response of the congregation; and on the lips of the deacon the words were almost a groan. He lost himself then in a flood of bitter repentance and prayer, hardly realizing where he was or what was passing around him.
Such are the wiles and deceits of men, that they are rarely to be trusted with the most advanced post; give them but footing, though that footing be innocent, and they will work night and day till their wishes are accomplished. Trust not, therefore, to yourself alone, nor suffer your heart to plead in their favour, lest it become as much your enemy as the tempter, man.
My only becoming occupations is to help young flaunting pagins to brush and comb and titiwate theirselves into whitening and suppulchres, and leave the young men to think that there an't a bit of padding in it nor no pinching ins nor fillings out nor pomatums nor deceits nor earthly wanities an't it, miss! Yes, to be sure it is ho yes!
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