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" In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, not by those of another. For although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. "
The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Página 538
por Alexander Chalmers - 1815
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The History of the Church and Court of Rome: From the ..., Volumen2

Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 496 páginas
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gro^s, because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...times, the same, manners and customs vary continually; and some parts of Luther's behaviour, which appear to us most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries....
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The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by D. Brewster, Volumen3

Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 páginas
...obstinacy.) But " in passing judgment upon the characters of men," says our elegant historian Robertson, " we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, not by those of another." When we reprobate Becket, then, our censure must extenci to the church of which he was a member, and...
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The First-class Reader: A Selection for Exercises in Reading : from Standard ...

Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 páginas
...Luther was guilty, must not be imputed wholly to the violence of his temper. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...vice are at all times the same, manners and customs continually vary. Accustomed himself to consider everything as subordinate to truth, he expected the...
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The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V: With a View of the ...

William Robertson - 1836 - 662 páginas
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...continually. Some parts of Luther's behaviour, which appear to us most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities,...
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The Life of John Calvin

Théodore de Bèze - 1836 - 346 páginas
...judgment on the characters of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, and not by those of another ; for, although virtue and...times the same, manners and customs vary continually." Although we are by no means disposed to justify Calvin in the part he took in the unhappy affair of...
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The Life of John Calvin

Théodore de Bèze - 1836 - 352 páginas
...THE CASE OF SERVETUS. Robertson, in his History of Charles V. remarks that " in passing judgment on the characters of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, and not by those of another ; for, although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and...
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The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the ...

William Robertson - 1838 - 658 páginas
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...continually. Some parts of Luther's behaviour, which appear to us most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities,...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volumen2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they ore familiar. In passing judgment upon . part« of Luther's behaviour, which appear to us most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries....
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volumen2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon ond Vuice. Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean...His great bright eye most silently Up to the moon is uud vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some pan« of Luther's behaviour,...
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The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the ...

William Robertson - 1848 - 672 páginas
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...maxims of their own age, not by those of another. For allnough virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. Some parts...
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