| Ethics - 1828 - 234 Seiten
...to heal. Of all bad things with which mankind are curst, Their own bad tempers surely are the worst. Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. No. 231.] THE SACRAMENTS. [SUNDAY. THE Christian religion is an institution of great plainness and... | |
| Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 Seiten
...(Concluded.) " We hold tin1 mirror up to Nature." DE b AM ET ; A TALE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. CHAPTER V. Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deten* ! — SCOTT. THE reader will recollect that the last chapter closed with the conversation between... | |
| 1853 - 1142 Seiten
...Joab his confidant and accomplice in the matter of Uriah, and he never was his own man afterwards. " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive !" But if David smarted in his person and his family, he was made to suffer yet more severely in his... | |
| Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1839 - 606 Seiten
...the question of their own admission ! Such are the difficulties to which our opponents arc driven. Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive ! They have been caught in their own trap — have subverted their own principles. I leave Mr. Cleaveland... | |
| Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 Seiten
...the President; and by "Samsons in the field," he did mean the Society of the Cincinnati, &c. &c. " Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive !" — ED. 360 PARTV DISSENSIONS. in giving happiness to the community, promised stability to the rulers... | |
| Uncle William (pseud.) - 1849 - 224 Seiten
...which uncle William wishes may be true of all his young friends : — " He never, never, told a lie!" " Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive ! " In the circumstances now narrated, there was a refusal to practice deception by uttering what was... | |
| Daniel Pierce Thompson - 1853 - 378 Seiten
...to the New Hampshire Grants, where we will endeavor to meet him in another chapter. CHAPTER VIII. " Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive." AFTER a rapid journey by land, Sherwood arrived at his house in the Grants, inauspiciously for his... | |
| 1853 - 604 Seiten
...Joab his confidant and accomplice in the matter of Uriah, and he never was his own man afterwards. " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive !" But if David smarted in his person and his family, he was made to suffer yet more severely in his... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1858 - 352 Seiten
...blame her for admiring attractive excellence, or wonder at her being willing to appropriate it ; but " Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive !" To one accustomed to the New England cold, a winter thus far south is cheering, and, I think, salubrious.... | |
| George Hatton Colomb - 1862 - 392 Seiten
...malice, and' she began to ponder over things which had occurred in days long gone by. CHAPTER XXX. " Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive." SCOTT. SIR RICHARD DE CLARE'S elder brother was often in want of money. His habits were extravagant... | |
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