 Duty. 400. Though assertions, not literally true, may, by general Convention, cease to be Lies, we must be careful of trifling with the limits of such cases, and of too readily assuming, and acting upon, such Conventions. Carelessness in these matters,...  The Elements of Morality: Including Polity - Seite 280von William Whewell - 1845Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Amelia Opie - 1827 - 280 Seiten
...the subscription of a letter ; a servant's denying his master ; a prisoner's pleading not guilty ; an advocate asserting the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his client's cause. In such instances, no confidence is destroyed, because none was reposed ; no promise to speak the truth... | |
 | Amelia Alderson Opie - 1827 - 388 Seiten
...in the subscription of a letter; a servant's denying his master; a prisoner's pleading not guilty ; an advocate asserting the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his client's cause. In such instances no confidence is destroyed, because none was reposed; no promise to speak the truth... | |
 | Amelia Opie - 1832 - 232 Seiten
...the subscription of a letter ; a servant's denying hit master ; a prisoner's pleading not guilty ; an advocate asserting the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his client's cause. In such instances, no confidence M destroyed, because none was reposed ; no promise to speak the truth... | |
 | William Whewell - 1845 - 422 Seiten
...his murderers, would be to be accessory to his death. This is a Case of Necessity, and a Lie in such a Case is not to be judged of by common Rules. 398....was given, or supposed to be given. But we reply by asking; If there is no mutual understanding that he shall speak truly, to what purpose does he speak,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 Seiten
...doubt whether the profession of an advocate can be pursued without the sacrifice of integrity. fc " Some Moralists have ranked with the cases in which...was given, or supposed to be given. But we reply by asking, If there is no mutual understanding that he shall speak truly, to what purpose does he speak,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 Seiten
...doubt whether the profession of an advocate can be pursued without the sacrifice of integrity. * " Some Moralists have ranked with the cases in which...supersedes the general rule of truth, an Advocate asserting 8 Whewell's Elements of Morality. [July, the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his Client's... | |
 | William Whewell - 1847 - 430 Seiten
...misfortune, have met with a warmer admiration, in the cases in which they are narrated. Such for instancexvas the falsehood told by Grotius's wife to save her husband,...was given, or supposed to be given. But we reply by asking, If there is no mu. » Paley, B. in. c. 15. tual understanding that he shall speak truly, to... | |
 | William Whewell - 1847 - 428 Seiten
...which he was contained as a box of theological books. 399. But when such falsehoods which thus save ft friend from ruin are accompanied with some great foreseen...the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his Client s cause*. As a reason why he may do this, though he believe otherwise, it is said that no promise... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 Seiten
...connected with this? 18. How far do you consider Paley's statement, that the assertion of an advocate of 'the justice or his belief in the justice of his client's cause' comes under the case of falsehoods which are not lies, to be true? "Would his grounds for this justify... | |
 | George Sharswood - 1860 - 212 Seiten
...length ; — " Some moralists," says he, " have ranked with the cases in which convention supersedes 43 the general rule of truth, an advocate asserting the...his belief in the justice, of his client's cause. Those who contend for such indulgence argue that the profession is an instrument for the administration... | |
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