 | William Robertson - 1884 - 730 pagina’s
...shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...Some parts of Luther's behaviour which to us appear mo.^t culpable gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of these qualities which... | |
 | William Robertson, William Hickling Prescott - 1887 - 852 pagina’s
...shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...parts of Luther's behaviour which to us appear most culpabie gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of these qualities which we are... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pagina’s
...one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold. — OW Holmes. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behavior, which appear to us most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pagina’s
...one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold.— OW Holmes. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behavior, which appear to us most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pagina’s
...shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...their own age, not by those of another. For, although virtn« and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's... | |
 | William Robertson - 1902 - 592 pagina’s
...shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims oftheir own age, not by those of another. For, although virtue and vice are at all times the same,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 450 pagina’s
...shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behavior which to us appear most culpable gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1876 - 580 pagina’s
...dispute. jj OPEN COMPETITION, In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try 1875. them by the principles and maxims of their own age,...continually. Some parts of Luther's behaviour, which appear to us most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities,... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1827 - 822 pagina’s
...in which he lived ; and we should bear in mind the just and sensible remarks of Dr. Robertson, that Some parts of Luther's behaviour, which to us appear...most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities, which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing... | |
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In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, not by those of another. For, although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. 
