This schoolmaster taught them the art of getting, either by violence, cozenage, flattery, lying, or by putting on a guise of religion; and these four gentlemen had attained much of the art of their master, so that they could each of them have kept such a school themselves.
"The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3"
John Bunyan
How, Sir, not dissemble- ah, then you have lost a great Virtue indeed, a very great Virtue; ah, let us not give away the Good Old Cause- but, as we have hitherto maintain'd it by gadly cozenage, and pious Frauds, let us persevere- ah, let us persevere to the end; let us not lose our Heritage for a Mess of Pottage, that is, let us not lose the Cause for Dissimulation and Hypocrisy, those two main Engines that have earned on the great Work.
"The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6)"
Aphra Behn
This schoolmaster taught them the art of getting, either by violence, cozenage, flattery, lying, or by putting on the guise of religion; and these four gentlemen had attained much of the art of their master, so that they could each of them have kept such a school themselves.
"The Pilgrim's Progress From this world to that which is to come."
John Bunyan