 I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict...  Catholic Educational Review - Pągina 523editat per - 1911Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 600 pągines
...offer our heartiest acknowledgments. ' I exhort you,' said Lord Acton to his distinguished audience, ' never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty... | |
 | 1896 - 518 pągines
...the men before him not to yield to the modern temptation to identify explanation with justification. "The weight of opinion is against me when I exhort...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1897 - 312 pągines
...doctrine. "I exhort you," he said, with an earnestness which took us captive, as we listened to him — " I exhort you never to debase the moral currency, or...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to allow no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1899 - 766 pągines
...History, strenuously contends: "The weight of opinion is against mo when I exhort yon," so he writes, "never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs our own lives, and to sull'er no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty... | |
 | William James Ashley - 1900 - 516 pągines
...men before him not to yield to the modern temptation to identify explanation with justification. ' The weight of opinion is against me when I exhort...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty... | |
 | Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman - 1901 - 450 pągines
...learned of living historians declares his chief message to be " never to debase the moral currency nor lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs our own lives, and suffer no man and no cause to escape the penalty which history... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1904 - 940 pągines
...Cambridge Lecture, has formally placed on record his opinion on ethical values in history when saying, " I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1904 - 698 pągines
...Cambridge lecture, has formally placed on record his opinion on ethical values in history when saying, ''1 exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1906 - 392 pągines
...identity of the first Whig. Most of this, I suppose, is undisputed, and calls for no enlargement. But the weight of opinion is against me when I exhort...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - 1907 - 478 pągines
...plea. It was Lord Acton who said, after years of struggle against official distortions of history, " the weight of opinion is against me when I exhort...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty... | |
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