 | William Robertson - 1857 - 600 pagina’s
...indecencies of every kind appear less shocking than in a living language, whoseidioms 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 - 1857 - 602 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 - 1859 - 630 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...by those of another. For, although virtue and vice arc at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behavior, which... | |
 | William Robertson, William Hickling Prescott - 1860 - 626 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 behavior, which to... | |
 | William Robertson - 1864 - 648 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...their own age, not by those of another. For although viitue and vice are at all times the same, manners and cus.toms vary continually Some parts of Luther's... | |
 | 1871 - 614 pagina’s
...said lately about Calvin and Servetus (4'" S. vii. 141): — " In passing judgment," says Robertson, " upon the 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... | |
 | 1876 - 586 pagina’s
...and by single combat, ofiered the Romans a choice of deciding the dispute. П. °PEÎÎ COMPETITION, In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try 1875. them by the principles and maxims of their own age, not by those of another ; for although virtue... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pagina’s
...indecencies of every kind appear less shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem mence and all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts of Luther's behaviour which appear... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pagina’s
...whose idiiw and phrases seem gross, because they ere familiar. In passing judgment upon the charu-t'-- of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, n"t • those of another: for although virtne ana vice are at all times the same, mariners aac customs... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pagina’s
...Presbyterian preacher. Author of History of Scotland, History of Charles V. of Germany and History of America. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we...of another ; for, although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. History of Charles V. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794).—... | |
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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. 
