 | New Thought - 1952 - 1054 pages
...its worst; suspect power more than vice, and study problems in preierence to periods . . . and suiier no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong—Lord Acton in "Essays on Freedom and Power." (The Beacon Press.) "Man! man is thy brother!... | |
 | Herbert Butterfield - History - 1965 - 148 pages
...the present which he very badly wanted to con-- demn. In fact, there is too much zest in the remark: ‘Suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.' The whig his-- torian, like Aquinas — if indeed it was Aquinas — may find perhaps too... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1896 - 598 pages
...offer our heartiest acknowledgments. ' I exhort you,' said Lord Acton to his distinguished audience, ' 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... | |
 | English literature - 1922 - 474 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... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1911 - 506 pages
...of History," Lord Acton tells his students: "The weight of opinion is against me when I exhort you never to debase the moral currency, or to lower the...try others by the final maxims that govern your own lives." These final maxims persist, while the apparently solid facts of history have a trick of changing.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1895 - 1140 pages
...exhort you,' he said, with an earnestness which took us captive, as we listened to him—' 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 allow no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1895 - 1140 pages
...exhort you,' he said, with an earnestness which took us captive, as we listened to him—' 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 allow no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which... | |
 | Sir John Linton Myres - Anthropology - 1917 - 426 pages
...time to have no interest beyond the narrative. ' ' =5 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... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - History - 1916 - 332 pages
...are 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... | |
 | Current events - 1896 - 518 pages
...to identify explanation with justification. "The weight of opinion is against me when 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... | |
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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 
