[155] on which account also there is a good deal of propriety in the expression— / "Never was heard of slave uprightly held, / But stooping always with a downbent neck." [40] For a crooked, and wily, and deceitful disposition, is a most ignoble thing; just as an upright, and straightforward, and undisguised, and unsuspicious soul, betokens a most noble character, its words harmonising with its intentions, and its intentions with its words.