 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sider
...shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In the oeean doing ! Second Vuice. Still as a slave...His great bright eye most silently Up to the moon is uud vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some pan« of Luther's behaviour,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1848 - 672 sider
...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...maxims of their own age, not by those of another. For allnough virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts... | |
 | 1871 - 732 sider
...lately about Calvin and Servetus (4th 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 sider
...shocking than in a living language, whose idiome and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children foll principle« and maxims of their own age, not by those of another ; for although virtue and vice are... | |
 | David Thomas - 674 sider
...Greece where is it ? Desolate for thousands of years, away, banished. IBID. ESTIMATING CHARACTER. In passing judgment upon the characters of men we ought...times the same, manners and customs vary continually. No religious cause requires irreligious means for its advancement. THE CULPABILITY OF IGNORANCE. Dr.... | |
 | 1855 - 488 sider
...enter into the desired haven, towards which this frail vessel of mine has been a long time steering." not by those of another. For, although virtue and...times the same, manners and customs vary continually. All the principles which religion teaches, and all the habits which it forms, are favourable to strength... | |
 | 1855 - 424 sider
...gross, because they ace familiar. "In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to rry them by the principles and maxims of their own age,...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 behaviour,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1856 - 656 sider
...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 viitue and vice arc at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually Some parts of Luther's... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1857 - 516 sider
...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...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... | |
 | William Robertson - 1857 - 600 sider
...shocking than in a living language, whoseidioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...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. 
