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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. "
A New Dictionary of the English Language ... - Page 378
by Charles Richardson - 1856
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The Fashionable World Displayed

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),...
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The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, Volume 1

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,...
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A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious ..., Volume 2

Charles Buck - Theology - 1807 - 508 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...intercourse with one another, and for no other purpose. Consequently nothing is adverted to by the law of honour but what tends to incommode this intercourse....
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The Remedy for Duelling: A Sermon, Delivered Before the Presbytery of Long ...

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...
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A Theological Dictionary, Volume 2

Charles Buck - Theology - 1810 - 498 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...intercourse with one another, and for no other purpose. Consequently nothing is adverted to by the law of honour but what tends to incommode this intercourse....
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The principles of moral and political philosophy, Volume 1

William Paley - Ethics - 1811 - 412 pages
...the Law of Honour, the Law of the Land, and the Scriptures. VOL. i. B CHAPTER II. THE LAW OF HONOUR. THE Law of Honour, is a system of rules constructed...intercourse with one another; and for no other purpose. Consequently, nothing is adverted to by the Law of Honour, but what tends to incommode this intercourse....
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The Works of William Paley, D.D.: The principles of moral and political ...

William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
...are, the Law of Honour, the Law of the Land, and the Scriptures. CHAPTER II. THE LA.W OF HONOUR. 1 HE Law of Honour is a system of rules constructed by...intercourse with one another ; and for no other purpose. Consequently, nothing is adverted to by the Law of Honour, but what tends to incommode this intercourse....
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A pocket encyclopædia, or library of general knowledge

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 another, and for no other purpose. Consequently nothing is considered as inconsistent with honour but what tends to incommode this intercourse....
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A Series of Popular Essays: Illustrative of Principles Essentially ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

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,...
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