 | American fiction - 1905 - 610 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... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - Church history - 1907 - 496 pages
...struggle against official distortions of history, " 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... | |
 | Salimbene (da Parma), George Gordon Coulton - Church history - 1907 - 476 pages
...struggle against official distortions of history, " 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... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - Church history - 1907 - 482 pages
...struggle against official distortions of history, " 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... | |
 | Charles William Super - Education, Higher - 1907 - 128 pages
...imagined than the career of the Great Corsican. Much wiser are the words of Lord Acton: "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... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - Church history - 1907 - 478 pages
...struggle against official distortions of history, " 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... | |
 | Southern History Association - Southern States - 1907 - 412 pages
...the belief that we should try others by the final maxim that governs our own lives and that we should "suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong." Besides the introductory lecture on the Unity of History, Americans naturally turn to that... | |
 | Southern History Association - Southern States - 1907 - 444 pages
...the belief that we should try others by the final maxim that governs our own lives and that we should "suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong." Besides the introductory lecture on the Unity of History, Americans naturally turn to that... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton, Salimbene (da Parma) - 1908 - 480 pages
...struggle against official distortions of history, " 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... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1911 - 808 pages
...the language of a partisan and not of an historian/' and declares that Lord Acton's famous appeal, " to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong," to be based on a mistaken view of the function of history. He points out that " history... | |
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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 
