 | William Paley, Richard Whately - Ethics - 1859 - 264 pages
...the Scriptures. CHAPTER II. THE LAW OF HONOUR. Law of Honour is a system of rules constructed by -L people of fashion, and calculated to facilitate their...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.... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 514 pages
...him submit to her mode of trial, the duel, under penalty of social outlawry and infamy. Says Paley, " The Law of Honour is a system of rules constructed...intercourse with one another, and for no other purpose." In criticizing Paley, Sir James Mclntosh soys: "His chapter upon 'the Law of Honour' is unjust, even... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 pages
...as a codo of morality is admirably shown by Paley in the following passage : — " The Law of Honor is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion,...intercourse with one another ; and for no other purpose. Consequently, nothing is adverted to by tho law of honor, but what tends to incommode this intercourse.... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - Gambling - 1870 - 502 pages
...called honourable — to be charged with no transgression of the law of honour ; which Paley defines as "a system of rules constructed by people of fashion,...intercourse with one another, and for no other purpose." 'There was one quality of honesty, however, which " honest Tom Duncombe " did possess. He was not a... | |
 | Anglican and International Christian Moral Science Association - Christian ethics - 1870 - 626 pages
...honour' within the province of moral philosophy, and then proceeds to define 'the law of honour' as ' a system of rules constructed by people of fashion,...their intercourse with one another ; and for no other purpose'—a definition which, by its very terms, proves that the law of honour is no law at all in... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - Gambling - 1870 - 470 pages
...called honourable — to bo charged with no transgression of the law of honour; which Paley defines as " a system of rules constructed by people of fashion,...and calculated to facilitate their intercourse with ono another, and for no other purpose." "There was one quality of honoHty, however, which " honest... | |
 | Henry Clay Fish - Sermons - 1871 - 926 pages
...integrity of rulers ? The law of honor, 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 honorable men only. The public good is out of the question; right and wrong... | |
 | John McClintock - Bible - 1873 - 976 pages
...grounds of their inculcation. IL ''..;...,'„ Special Use* of the Term. — 1. " Lam of Honor" ua system of rules constructed by people of fashion,...calculated to facilitate their intercourse with one mother, and for no other purpose. Consequently nothing is adverted to by the law of honor but what... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...are too old for them : time will destroy the first objection, but confirm the second. COLTON : Lacon. The law of honour is a system of rules constructed...to facilitate their intercourse with one another. PALEY. Honour makes a great part of the reward of all honourable professions. ADAM SMITH. Thus to contradict... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...are too old fur them : time will destroy the first objection, but confirm the second. COLTON : Lacon. 钥 = Ҹ5 ʾ u 4$ ( R@U* W I yȎ] Ӓ/ K DI k n g... a ? i Z3 r6 K 8 V B @9 ] $|Ұ Yō y'٤ U PA LEY. Honour makes a great part of the reward of all honourable professions. ADAM SMITH. Thus to... | |
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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. 
