 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 pages
...we are raised to a post or prei ferment, we should never do or permit any thin;; whieh msr -.:.v. u to imply that we look upon ourselves as inferior to...the rank we hold. The third is, that those things, whieh honour forbids, are more rigorously forbidden, when the laws do not eoneur in ihe prohibition... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1823 - 810 pages
...permitted to set a value upon our fortune, but are absolutely forbidden to set any upon our lives. The second is, that when we are raised to a post or...hold. ' The third is, that those things which honour forbids, are more rigorously forbidden, when the laws do not concur in the prohibition ; and those... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...liberty either to seek or to reject employments; a liberty which it prefers even to an ample fortune. The second is, that when we are raised to a post or...seem to imply that we look upon ourselves as inferior : • • the rank we hold. The third is, that those things which honour forbids are more rigorously... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1857 - 642 pages
...permitted to set л value apon our fortune, bat are absolutely forbidden to set any upon CHI a 70S, " The second is, that when we are raised to a post or preferment, we should never do or permit anything which may seem to imply that we look upon ourselves as inferior to the rank we hold. ''The... | |
 | 1861 - 514 pages
...permitted to set a value upon our future, but are absolutely forbidden to set any upon our lives." The second is, " that when we are raised to a post or preferment, we should never do or permit anything, which may seem to imply that we look upon ourselves as inferior to the rank we hold." The... | |
 | 1873 - 862 pages
...that when we arc raised to a post or rank, wo should never do or permit anything which may веет to imply that we look upon ourselves as inferior to...rank we hold. The third is, that those things which honor forbids are more rigorously forbidden, when the laws do not concur in the prohibition ; and those... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1873 - 860 pages
...is, that when we are raised to a poet or rank, we should never do or permit anything which may aeem to imply that we look upon ourselves as inferior to the rank we hold. The third is, that those thing» which honor forbids arc more rigorously forbidden, when the laws do not concur in the prohibition... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1876 - 636 pages
...permitted to set \ value upo'i our tin-tune, but are absolutely forbidden to Bet any upon >tUl n » TO. " The second is, that when we are raised to a post or preferment, wt should never do or permit anything winch may seem to imply that we look upon ourselves as interior... | |
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The third is that those things which honour forbids are more rigorously forbidden, when the laws do not concur in the prohibition; and those it commands are more strongly insisted upon, when they happen not... 
