 | John Mackenzie (of Huntingdon.) - 1809 - 424 pagina’s
...indecencies of every kind appear less shocking "than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. " In passing judgment...those of another. For although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behaviour, which to... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 684 pagina’s
...be sometimes admitted, though they are joined by a •copulative or disjunctive conjunction : as, " In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we...them by the principles and maxims of their own age, and not by those of another. For, although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pagina’s
...though they are joined by a copulative or disjunctive conjunction : as, " In passing judgment upon tte characters of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, and not by those of another. For, although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 484 pagina’s
...indecencies of every kind appear less, shocking than, in a living language, whose .idioms aad phrases seem gross, because they are familiar.^ . ; . IN passing judgment upon the characters of jnen, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, not by those of another.... | |
 | William Robertson - 1810 - 412 pagina’s
...idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the GW. racters of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, not by those o! another ; for although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pagina’s
...indecencies of every kind appear less shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In passing judgment...those of another. For although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behaviour, which to... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 648 pagina’s
...shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross because they are familiar. 1n passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...of another ; for, although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behaviour, which to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 558 pagina’s
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. " In passing judgment upou the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...of another. For, although virtue and .vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behaviour which to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 552 pagina’s
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. " In passing judgment upou the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...those of another. For, although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behaviour which to... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pagina’s
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. " In passing judgment upou the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...those of another. For, although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behaviour which to... | |
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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. 
