 | John Owen - Great Britain - 1804 - 104 pages
...by the collective appellation of the law of honour. This extraordinary code has been defined to be " a system of rules constructed by people of Fashion,...to facilitate their intercourse with one another*." Now if this definition be a just one (and I presume k is from the high authority by which it is given),... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1806 - 502 pages
...the Law of Honour, the Law of rhe Land, and the Scriptures. ' . CHAPTER II. THE LAW OF HONOUR. 1 HE Law of Honour is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and «alculated to facilitate their intercourse with one another; and for no other purpose. D Consequently,... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - Dueling - 1809 - 62 pages
...integrity of rulers ? The law of honour, were its maxims obeyed perfectly, would afford no security. " It is " a system of rules constructed by people of fashion,...intercourse with one another, " and for no other purpose *." It is the guardian of honourable men only. The public good is out of the question — right and... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 458 pages
...define. It is subject to a system of rules, called the law of honour, constructed by people of fashion, calculated to facilitate their intercourse with one...and for no other purpose. Consequently nothing is considered as inconsistent with honour but what tends to incommode this intercourse. Hence profaneness,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...of rules, called the law of honour, constructed by people of fashion, calculated to facilitate then- intercourse with one another, and for no other purpose. Consequently nothing is considered as inconsistent with honour but what tends to incommode this intercourse. Hence profaneness,... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Education - 1813 - 484 pages
...improvement. It is farther to be observed, that the laws of politeness are, like the laws of honour, " a system of rules constructed by people of fashion,...and calculated to facilitate their intercourse with each other, and for no other purpose." In answering this purpose they have a certain value ; but even... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1846 - 498 pages
...originally commenced the temptation to evil, and which is constantly carrying on the deadly employment. * " The law of honour is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and caleulated to facilitate their intercourse with one another ; and for no other purpose. Consequently,... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1815 - 546 pages
...and cannot but be penal, because even' breach of his law is sin, and meritorious of punishment Lato of honour, is a system of rules constructed by people...purpose. Consequently nothing is adverted to by the law j of honour, but what tends to incommode ¡ this intercourse. Hence this law only prescrites and regulates... | |
 | Charles Buck - Bible - 1823 - 614 pages
...are and cannot but be penal, because every breach of his law is sin, and meritorious of punishment. Law of honour is a system of rules constructed by...no other purpose. Consequently nothing is adverted :o by the law of honour but what tends :o incommode this intercourse. Hence this law only prescribes... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...the law of honor, the law of the land, and the scriptures. ' 2 The law of honor. — The law of honor is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion,...Consequently, nothing is adverted to by the law of honor, but what tends to incommode this intercourse. Hence, this law only prescribes and regulates... | |
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THE Law of Honour is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and calculated to facilitate their intercourse with one another; and for no other purpose. 
