text:  And this fault honest Montaigne finds with Guicciardini:--"I have also " says he "observed this in him that of so many persons and so many effects so many motives and so many counsels as he judges of he never attributes any one of them to virtue religion or conscience as if all those were utterly extinct in the world; and of all the actions however brave an outward show they make he always throws the cause and motive upon some vicious occasion or some prospect of profit