 | Catholics - 1903 - 444 pages
...back nearly 150 years and am amazed that so few Catholic families have anything.” “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 gov ems your own lives and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English literature - 1913 - 1230 pages
...conception of the function of history, which he held to be primarily ethical. " I exhort you," he says, " 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... | |
 | George Peabody Gooch - Historians - 1913 - 634 pages
...never to debase the moral currency, 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 history has the power to inflict on wrong.' ' If in our uncertainty we must often err, it may be sometimes better to risk excess in... | |
 | Frederick John Teggart - Historiography - 1916 - 144 pages
...almost necessarily followed by judgments upon their conduct. So Lord Acton can say: " 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... | |
 | Frederick John Teggart - Historiography - 1916 - 244 pages
...for the time to have no interest beyond the (narrative." 25 Lord Acton's pronouncement, "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... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - Great Britain - 1916 - 702 pages
...in the best sense of the word :— " 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." In spite of his eventual appointment to a post where his vast and varied knowledge could... | |
 | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - Ojibwa Indians - 1916 - 550 pages
...such a notion. Lord Acton in his inaugural address at Cambridge twenty years ago urged his hearers, "Never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude," but to judge men of all ages and countries by the final maxim which governed their own lives, "to suffer no... | |
 | Ernest Carroll Moore - Education - 1919 - 340 pages
...was when it existed. That, I think, must have been the reason for Lord Acton's charge: "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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 666 pages
...“never to debase the moral currency, 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 history has the power to inflict on wrong.” He could have no finer epitaph. BOOK REVIEWS 113 BOOK REVIEWS EARLY BABYLONIAN LE'rrERS... | |
 | Ernest Carroll Moore - Education - 1919 - 360 pages
...was when it existed. That, I think, must have been the reason for Lord Acton's charge: "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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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 
