such little blackening Accounts, and more enclined to be credulous on the uncharitable, than on the good-natured Side.
Such a Credulity is very vicious in it self, and generally arises from a Man's Consciousness of his own secret Corruptions.
is a pretty Saying of
Thales, Falshood is just as far distant from Truth, as the Ears are from the Eyes.
By which he would intimate, that a wise Man should not easily give Credit to the Reports of Actions which he has not seen. I
, under this Head, mention two or three remarkable Rules to be observed by the Members of the celebrated Abbey
de la Trape