| James Ferguson - 1823 - 360 sider
...impart suitable rewards and punishments. As to be perfectly just is an attribute in the Div'..-.(.• Nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of a man. Such an one who has the public administration in his hands, acts like the representative of his Maker, in... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sider
...CUSTOM is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools. As to be perfectly just, is an attribute of the divine nature ; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. No man was ever cast down with the injuries of fortune, unless he had before suffered himself... | |
| William Thew - 1825 - 144 sider
...shall teach , , Virtue to soar beyond the villain's reach." "As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man." f " Unawed by numbers, follow nature's plan, , j Assert the rights, or quit the name of man ;... | |
| 1826 - 316 sider
...measure out and impart suitable rewards and punishments. As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the Divine Nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities...in his hands, acts like the representative of his Maker, in recompensing the virtuous, and punishing the offender. By the extirpating of a criminal he... | |
| William Enfield - 1827 - 412 sider
...CUSTOM is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools. As to be perfectly just, is an attribute of the divine nature ; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. No man was ever cast down with the injuries of fortune, unless he had before suffered himself... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 sider
...to figure them by the conical sections. ffeaton'i Optidu. As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the Divine Nature ; to be so, to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of a man. Additon. Perhaps it may appear upon examination that the most polite ages arc the least virtuous. This... | |
| Watson Adams - 1834 - 290 sider
...our good lasts. St. Evermond. LAW, JUSTICE, AND OPPRESSION. To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature ; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. Jiddison. No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest. Sir W. Raleigh. Judges ought to be more... | |
| Noah Webster - 1835 - 270 sider
...Custom is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools. As to be perfectly just, is an attribute of the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. No man was ever cast down with the injuries of fortune, unless he had before suffered himself... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 sider
...secure amidst a falling world. Anm. THERE is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. Most of the other virtues are the virtues of created beings,...in his hands, acts like the representative of his maker, in recompensing the virtuous, and punishing the offender. By the extirpating of a criminal he... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 sider
...Impavidum ferlent ruinœ.— Ног. THERE is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. Most of the other virtues are the virtues of created beings,...in his hands, acts like the representative of his Maker, in recompensing the virtuous, and punishing the offenders. By the extirpating of a criminal,... | |
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