...cause the troops to be sent away into the west ! The practice would become a snare to the Government. "Oh ! what a tangled web we weave " When first we practise to deceive !" As had been mentioned in the House of Commons, there had been in former times a letter intercepted...

...real patriot(a) bears his private wrongs, Rather than right them at the public cost. — Beller. • Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! — Scott. To birth or office no respect be paid, Let worth determine here. — Pope. Worth makes...

...What-ho ! thou genius of the clime what-ho ! Liest thou asleep beneath these hills of snow ? — Dryden. Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! — Scott. Here he had need All circumspection ; and we now, no less, Choice in our suffrage ; for...

...same epistles. All clearly exemplifying the poetical maxim of Sir Walter Scott, when he exclaims, " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." The ensuing pages will be found to contain much new and original information respecting the biography...

...same epistles. All clearly exemplifying the poetical maxim of Sir Walter Scott, when he exclaims, " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." The ensuing pages will be found to contain much new and original information respecting the biography...

...can't get along at home without her. BY MRS. CLARA LUCAS BALFOUB. CHAPTER IV. — CROSS CURRENTS. " Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive ! " 8COTT. RS. HAYNES and her sister Ruth Grey had known Mabel by working for her for many years, —...

...the reading in ' The Bullfinch,' 1788, and ' The Myrtle and Vine,' vol. ii. p. 87, 1800. JW EBSWORTH. Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive. Walter Scott, ' Marmion,' canto vi. stanza 17. This, in expression, is partly imitated from Shakspeare...

...distinction in any sphere of life that we would have it considered well — as a beacon to warn from ruin. ' Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! ' Despite his marvellous talents, his industry, his knowledge, his magnitude of mind, his glorious...

...to avow it. How crooked and uncertain are the ways of deceit ! Truly indeed has the poet written, " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! " and sadly was Harry beginning to illustrate this truth by his rapid progress in duplicity. " Is this your...

...the matter with Master Leonard ; he would be pretty well again by the morning." 14:2 CHAPTEE XIII. " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." — SCOTT. We must return again now to Arthur. Humours of the accident had reached Mr. Thompson, and...