| Harriet Newell Baker - 1883 - 378 páginas
...a system of persecution, blaming herself severely that it had not been done earlier. CHAPTER XXI. " Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive ! " — Scott. A LICE knocked several times at Uncle Stephen's ./-\. door before she received any reply.... | |
| Frederick William Hackwood - 1883 - 224 páginas
...mislead in any way. Untruthfulness, or Lying. (1) Lying begets distrust. (2) Lying becomes a habit. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive."— Scott. (3) Lying arises from — (a) An attempt to please, or a fear of blame. (5) An attempt to secure... | |
| Edward J. Dent - 1979 - 320 páginas
...Bartolo is cross-examining Rosina about the pen and paper, etc., I let him sing to a conspicuous phrase: Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive!13 If Dr Bartolo had been an Englishman he might quite well have quoted those words in talking... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 páginas
...And, after all, what is a lie? "Tis but The truth in masquerade. Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive! Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish novelist, poet Most lies are quite successful, and human society... | |
| John L. Cotter, Daniel G. Roberts, Michael Parrington - 1992 - 563 páginas
...convenience and humor became calls to mind Sir Walter Scott's cautionary words iMarmion, stanza 17): Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive. * The Ellenbogen reference in the 1836 Philadelphia City Directory could therefore match tiie burials,... | |
| Margaret Laurence - 1993 - 224 páginas
...But now I see I'm stuck with the lie, and will have to invent complicated explanations to cover it. Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive! Mother's voice, lilting and ladylike, telling me that as a child. I can't remember what my sin was,... | |
| Loyal D. Rue - 1994 - 370 páginas
...for as everyone knows, a benign deceit may very well become malignant, and as Sir Walter Scott warns, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!" My only point is that an abundance of benign deception will not necessarily be inconsistent with sustaining... | |
| David J. Merrell - 1994 - 284 páginas
...assemblage of species represents Mullerian mimicry, Batesian mimicry, or both. Sir Walter Scott's saying "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive" (Marmion, 1808) seems entirely appropriate. Nonetheless, even though the two types of mimicry may not... | |
| Earl R. Mac Cormac, Maksim Stamenov - 1996 - 378 páginas
...physical and biological sciences, but human behavior as well. For example, "once bitten, twice shy" and "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive", both express the psychological insight that differences multiply over time. Even the very subtle differences... | |
| Susan M. Levin - 1998 - 180 páginas
...of Gil-Martin's name, perhaps the web of deceit, perhaps an echo of the lines in Scott's Marmion — "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, / When first we practise to deceive" (Canto VI, stanza 17). Whatever the exact meaning of the net, Robert ends up in it in the same position... | |
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