"Perfidiousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... soul, he would have discovered what we are taught in the Scriptures, that "because of unrighteous dealings, injuries, and riches got by deceit, a kingdom is translated from one people to another."(906) Carthage is destroyed, because its avarice, perfidiousness, and cruelty, have attained their utmost height. The like fate will attend Rome, when its luxury, ambition, pride, and unjust usurpations, concealed beneath a specious and delusive show of justice and virtue, shall have compelled the sovereign Lord, the disposer of empires, to give ...
— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin
... morning, approve of the bargain, they take up the trinkets and leave the gold-dust, or else make some deductions from the latter. In this manner they transact their exchange without seeing one another, or without the least instance of dishonesty or perfidiousness on their part." This curious instance of Nigritian commerce has certainly been copied from the following passage in Herodotus, proving the high antiquity of the ingenious fable:—"It is their (the Carthaginian's) custom," ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson |
