| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...conscience have vacation As well as other courts o" the nation ? Huililmu. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 317. He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for...can any man be said To break an oath he never made ? Line 377. As the ancients Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,1 And look before you ere you... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1883 - 426 páginas
...business, why they should 375 In other matters do him hurt, I think there 's little reason for 't. He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for...convenience takes it : Then how can any man be said 38o To break an oath he never made 1 These reasons may perhaps look oddly To th' wicked though they... | |
| Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 páginas
...much money as 'twill hring? The Public Faith, which every one Is bound to observe, is kept hy none. He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it. Opinion governs all mankind, Like the blind's leading of the blind. The worst of rebels never arm To... | |
| Richard Ashe King - 1885 - 346 páginas
...she would have to tell ought really to go down to Mary's account ; for Lucy held with Hudibras— ' He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it.' When they had got into Mary's room, Lucy flew at once upon Miss Ripple. ' That little Gadfly just came... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1888 - 666 páginas
...pious in The one, in th' other is a sin. Again,— He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that fur convenience takes it . Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made ? 39. Sir William Davenant, knighted by the king for services before Gloucester in 1643, is the author... | |
| John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 páginas
...th' nation ? Line 317. 1 Onr wasted oil nnprofitahly harns. Like hidden lamps in old sepnlehral nrns. He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for...can any man be said To break an oath he never made ? ffudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 377. As the ancients Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,1... | |
| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1895 - 944 páginas
...lines are very curious. " Oaths are but words, and words but wind, Too feeble implements to bind ; He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for...can any man be said To break an oath he never made ?" In point of casuistry, also, the following are to be remembered : " Why should not conscience have... | |
| 1895 - 768 páginas
...he that made and forc'd it, broke it, Not he that for convenience took it. Butler, Hud. 2, n. 273. He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for...can any man be said To break an oath he never made. Butler, Hud. 2, II. 377. The breaking of an oath and lying, Is but a kind of self-denying, A saint-like... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1895 - 314 páginas
...than three Jews ? ' ' Does not in Chancery every man swear What makes best for him in his answer ? ' ' He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for...can any man be said To break an oath he never made ? ' ' That sinners may supply the place Of sufTring saints is a plain case. Justice gives sentence... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 páginas
...with the other pull her home. (17) What is worth in anything But so much money as 'twill bring? (19) He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it. (20) Opinion governs all mankind, Like the blind's leading of the blind. (21) The worst of rebels never... | |
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