...to see— When certain most, we find ourselves mistaken, And he is caught who would the catcher be. Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! FABLE LVI. THE HUSBANDMAN AND THE STORK. THE Husbandman set a net in his fields to take the cranes...

...times more in fault than she is, or ever was.' And then he sighed, and quoted those lines, — ' " Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." ' And he read me quite a homily on the virtues of perfect truthspeaking and sincerity, and hoped nothing...

...12. In the following sentences, distinguish the adverbial clauses of TIME from those of PLACE :— 1. Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive.—Scott. 3. As noon as the sun arose, all their boats were manned and armed.— Robertson....

...played truant again all the while he was at school. CHAPTER II. SHORT STEPS INTO GREAT TROUBLES. ' Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." Sia \V. SCOTT. CHAPTER II. SHORT STEPS INTO GREAT TROUBLES, JHAT Frank was a cunning little fellow,...

...indifferent, rumessential, were in perpetual requisition to reconcile me to myself. And difficulties — " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive 1 "— the world, myself, and God — I had undertaken to please all, and as each stood opposed to...

...that, I trow. — Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun ; 25 Must separate Constance from the Nun — Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! — A Palmer too ! — no wonder why I felt rebuked beneath his eye : 30 I might have known there was...

...were made in violation of the laws of our own country, of nations, and of the treaty with New Granada. "Oh! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." While at Washington, Secretary Seward gave General Jones a diplomatic dinner, and extended to him other...

..."If I could but stop his mouth, too," said the wicked boy, " then I should have it all my own way." " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." And when a sinful wish rises in the heart, Satan is generally at hand to present an opportunity ; and...

...and completes the monument of terrible warning to all who in succeeding ages shall read his story. "Oh ! what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive ! " We know where a sin begins, but no mind can divine where it will end. It may be doubted whether...

...repentance ? ' And some words my mother used to repeat often when I was a boy kept running in my head : 'Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! ' "But I was determined to disentangle the web, or to cut its meshes. So I knelt down and asked my...