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" never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxims that govern your own life, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict upon "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 246
1927
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 238

English literature - 1922 - 532 pages
...contemporary character is to be wise in time. And, if Acton is right in enjoining upon students of history ' to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which History has the power to inflict,' then there is the more reason for Clio, should she, too, wish to serve the State, to be up and doing...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 13

American fiction - 1905 - 548 pages
...warns the students at Cambridge, "but try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives and suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong. . . If we lower our standard in history," he impressively adds, "we cannot uphold it in Church...
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association

American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1899 - 770 pages
...History, strenuously contends: "The weight of opinion is against me when I exhort you,'' so ho writes, "never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim thiit governs our own lives, and to sutler no man nnil no cause to escape the undying penalty...
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The Heart of the Empire: Discussions of Problems of Modern City Life in ...

Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman - Cities and towns - 1901 - 450 pages
...learned of living historians declares his chief message to be " never to debase the moral currency nor lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs our own lives, and suffer no man and no cause to escape the penalty which history...
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The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter: Being a Proof, with Moral ...

Henry Hawkes Spink (jr) - Gunpowder Plot, 1605 - 1902 - 464 pages
...found out."—Sm EDWAKD COKE (the Attorney-General who prosecuted the eight surviving conspirators). " Suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which History has the power to inflict on Wrong.''—LOUD ACTON. " History, it is said, revises the verdicts of contemporaries, and constitutes...
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The American Historical Review, Volume 9

John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1904 - 978 pages
...has formally placed on record his opinion on ethical values in history when saying, " I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which...
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association

American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1904 - 696 pages
...lecture, has formally placed on record his opinion on ethical values in history when saying. "1 exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own livesland to suffer no man and no cause to ••scape the undying penalty...
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Publications of the Southern History Association ..., Volume 8

Southern History Association - Southern States - 1904 - 584 pages
...expressing his opinion on ethical values in history exhorts the historian, in his Cambridge Lecture, "to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong." That the judgment of history is the bitterest penalty to which the actions of men can be...
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Publications of the Southern History Association, Volume 8

Southern History Association - Southern States - 1904 - 572 pages
...expressing his opinion on ethical values in history exhorts the historian, in his Cambridge Lecture, "to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong." That the judgment of history is the bitterest penalty to which the actions of men can be...
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The Advocate of Peace, Volumes 66-67

Arbitration (International law) - 1904 - 528 pages
...on earth ; and while Lord Acton is quite right in insisting that no man and no cause must be allowed to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong, there is no reason whatever why we should fail to accord to those who differ from us the...
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