 When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged : but when the dictates of honour are contrary to those of religion and equity, they are the greatest...  Recollections of a Chaperon - Page 119by Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1833Full view - About this book
 | 1729 - 342 pages
...quickly leflen the Number of thefe imaginary Men of Honour, and put an End to fo abfuvd a Practice. WHEN Honour is a Support to virtuous Principles, and runs parallel with the Laws of God and our Country, it cannot be too much cherithed and encouraged : But when the Dictates of Honour... | |
 | Gentleman - Conduct of life - 1744 - 488 pages
...: So little do they know that to forgive is the moft moft arduous Pitch human Nature can arrive at. When Honour is a Support to virtuous Principles, and runs parallel with the Laws of God and our Country, it cannot be too much cherifh'd and encouraged : But when the Dictates of Honour... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...quickly lessen the number of these imaginary men of honour, and put an end to so absurd a practice. When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged : but when the dictates of honour... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...quickly lessen the number of these imaginary men of honour, and put an end to so absurd a practice. When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, ii. cannot be too much cherished and encouraged : but when the dictates of honour... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...quickly! lessen the number of these imaginary men of honour, and put an end to so absurd a practice. When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged : but when the dictates of honour... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...quickly lessen the number of these imaginary men of honour, and put an end to so absurd a practice. When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged : but when the dictates of honour... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...quickly lessen the number of these imaginary men of honour, and pat an end to so absurd a practice. When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and onr country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouniged; but when the dictates of honour... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...growing disregard to the divine law' ; there you see proportionable advances made to ruin and misery.* 7. When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country', it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged. 8. Obedience, though not the... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...quickly lessen the number of these imaginary men of honour, and put an end to so absurd a practice. When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherised and encouraged : but when the dictates of honour... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...quickly lessen the number of these imaginary men of honour, and put an end to so absurd a practice. erceness, resolution in obstinacy, wisdom in dinning, patience in sullenness and de God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged : but when the dictates of honour... | |
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