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Updated: May 21, 2025
And on this wise did the deceiver abide at the feet of the deceived." I cannot find any satisfactory explanation of this proverbial saying, which may be rendered in two ways, according as quale and tale are taken as relative to a thing or a person.
He had fallen asleep, and slept soundly, when thrift prompted him to remember that one piece of cloth, several balls of wool, and one white rabbit, his property, were at that moment at the deceiver Bertha's. Why should he, the deceived, make the married pair happy, with one piece of cloth, several balls of wool, and a white rabbit? And Jodoque woke up to the terrible truth in a cold sweat.
And yet the fact that they do not interest me, were enough to prove me in as false and despicable a position as ever man found himself occupying as arrant a hypocrite and deceiver as any god-personating priest in the Delphic temple. I had rather a man despised than excused me, Mr. Polwarth, for I am at issue with myself, and love not my past." "I shall do neither, Mr. Wingfold.
In short, he made many shuffling and evasive answers, not boldly lying out, which, perhaps, would have succeeded, but poorly and vainly endeavouring to reconcile falsehood with truth; an attempt which seldom fails to betray the most practised deceiver. How impossible was it therefore for poor Booth to succeed in an art for which nature had so entirely disqualified him.
Clover's heart being thus lightened of its only burden by this treaty of mutual amity, she proceeded joyously with her packing. Mrs. Hope said she was not half sorry enough to go away, and Poppy upbraided her as a gay deceiver without any conscience or affections.
A modern poet has confessed that his muse loves the pavement a bold confession, but most certainly true. Why does talent gravitate to cities? Because there it works its best because friction necessarily produces brilliancy. Nature is a great deceiver; she draws us on to admire her insinuating charms, and in the contemplation of them we lose our energy. Christian had been born and bred in cities.
And while he halted for a moment to parley with the man, the crowd came upon them, and he was parted from his friend, who had held up his fainting steps; and so he sprung trembling into the shop, scarcely thinking himself safe even there. Now the man into whose house he had turned, though he was a fair-spoken man, and one who knew well how to seem honest and true, was altogether a deceiver.
He tried to avoid this public isolation by sitting close to the next box, where there was a solitary occupant an officer apparently as lonely as himself. He had made up his mind that when his fair deceiver appeared he would let her see by his significant applause that he recognized her, but bore no malice for the trick she had played on him.
This I have been enabled to do; and I am ready to suffer even more than this for Him who was beaten, and spit upon, and led as a sheep to the slaughter on our account. When they heard this, they fell to beating him anew, saying, 'Have we need of your preaching, you deceiver?
Ah, you may grunt and make signs, but I had it from the Countess de Craylierre's own tirewoman, who came for a bit of lace, that the Dauphin is about to the Sire Jamet de Tillay caught her kissing the minstrel on a bench in the garden at Nanci. 'I would not trust the Sire de Tillay's word. He is in debt to every merchant of the place a smooth-tongued deceiver.
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