Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Only they Cover and Meditate Abuses under the Masque and Pretence of Conscience, and Religion and make God Almighty Privy to a Thousand False and Cozcning Contrivances, that we keep as the Greatest Privacies in the World, from the Knowledge of our Neighbours. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Nay, when we are Most in Earnest, our Vows and Promises are more then Half Broken in the very making of them; and if we can but secure our Selves a Retreat, by some Cleanly Evasion, Distinction, or Mental Reservation, it serves our Purpose e'en as Well as if it were a Casuistical Resolution. In One Word, we find the Moral of Mercury and the Traveller in the very Secrcts of our Hearts, betwixt Heaven, and our own Souls. ”
