| John Leland - 1837 - 784 pages
...bespeaks little of real honesty or worth ; and that if virtue be not really estimable in itself, he can see nothing estimable in following it • for the sake of a bargain."* He asks, " how shall we deny that to serve God by compulsion, or for interest merely, is servile and... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1839 - 246 pages
...among much dross, has many particles of ore, * If it be not estim* Plato. t Plato. able in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain.' * " I looked round the world, and saw often virtue in rags, and vice in purple; the former conduces... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1842 - 700 pages
...said with one who, among much dross, has many particles of ore, ' If it be not estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain.'; - 1 looked round the world, and saw often virtue in rags, and vice in purple ; the former conduces... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1859 - 580 pages
...consulting happiness/ this cant of living for ourselves, is but a mean as well as a false philosophy. \Vhy this eternal reference to self? Is self alone to be...nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a hargain.' But, in fact, repose is the poorest of all delusions* ; the very act of recurring to self,... | |
| 1864 - 890 pages
...pronounces that God is just, righteous, and true." " If virtue be not really estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain ;" and he complains of those who «' speak so much of the rewards and punishments, and so little of... | |
| George Berkeley - 1871 - 536 pages
...practice bespeaks little of real honesty or worth. , .' . . If virtue be not reallv estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain.' (vol. I. p. 97.) . . . ' The saving of souls is now the heroic passion of exalted wits.' (vol. I. p.... | |
| George Berkeley - 1871 - 538 pages
...honest practice bespeaks little of real honesty or worth If virtue be not really estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain.' (vol. I. p. 97.) . . . ' The saving of souls is now the heroic passion of exalted wits/ (vol, I. p.... | |
| James McCosh - 1875 - 506 pages
...pronounces that God is just, righteous, and true." " If virtue be not really estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain ; " and he complains of those who "speak so much of the rewards and punishments, and so little of the... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1895 - 540 pages
...said with one who, among much dross, has many particles of ore, 'If it be not estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain." 1 Lord Shaftesbury. " I looked round the world, and saw often Virtue in rags, and Vice in purple :... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 652 pages
...said with one who, among much dross, has many particles of ore, ' If it be not estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain. ' i " I looked round the world, and saw often virtue in rags, and vice in purple : the former conduces... | |
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