 Believe it, my good friend, to love truth, for truth's sake, is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body.  A Retrospect of the Religious Life of England, Or, The Church, Puritanism ... - Seite 402von John James Tayler - 1845 - 563 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 Seiten
...from whom I might receive it undisguised, and to whom I might communicate what I thought true freely. Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's...have as much of it as ever I met with in any body. What then is there wanting to make you equal to the best ; a friend for any one to be proud of? 31—2... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1874 - 522 Seiten
...damage their own cause with young, ingenuous minds, bred in the school of I Locke to believe that " to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part...this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues." (Locke, aet. 73, Letter to Collins.) Spalding has described the moral shock his faith received on hearing... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 Seiten
...from whom I might receive it undisguised, and to whom I might communicate what I thought true freely. Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's...and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever 1 met with in any body. What then is there wanting to make you equal to the best; a friend for any... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 358 Seiten
...fatalism and materialism, received from the aged Locke a letter in. which, occurs this sentence : " Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's...principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed plot of all other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in... | |
 | 1878 - 300 Seiten
...Look up to the sky to see the moon, instead of seeking for it in the pond. — Persian. 12th cent. AC To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. — John Locke ; English. 1690 AC NOW-A-DAYS, men will investigate... | |
 | 1925 - 702 Seiten
...Sec. 101, "Thoughts," p. 82. 5 Sec. 216, p. 189. not for a purpose, but for itself. He himself says, "Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's...principal part of human perfection in this world and the seed-plant of all other virtues" ;6 (2) his perfect trust in the reason as the grand and only guide... | |
 | Alice Peloubet Norton - 1892 - 368 Seiten
...seekers after truth. " Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man." — Madame de Staël. " To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this work!, and the seed-plot of all other virtues." — Locke. (3) Because such seekers are governed by... | |
 | John Owen - 1881 - 512 Seiten
...association — as the text of his subject the remarkable words of Locke found on the title-page, ' Believe it, my good friend, to love Truth for Truth's...this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.' It may obviate misunderstanding with respect to other writers who have within the last few years treated... | |
 | John Owen - 1881 - 578 Seiten
...SKEPTICS FREE DISCUSSION ON FREE THINKERS BY JOHN OWEN RICTOB OF KA8T AX8TKY, DKVOH ' Believe it, ray good friend, to love Truth for Truth's sake is the...this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues' — LOCK.K VOL. II. CHRISTIAN SKEPTICISM LONDON LONGMANS, GEEEN, AND CO. 1881 All rig hit reserved... | |
 | John Owen - 1881 - 534 Seiten
...WITH THE SKEPTICS OR FREE DISCUSSION ON FREE THINKERS BY JOHN QWEN II EC TO II OK KAHT ANHTEY, DEVON * Believe it, my good friend, to love Truth for Truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection iu LhU world, and the seed-plot of all other virtucd' — LOCKE VOL. I. PRE-CHRISTIAN SKEPTICISM LONDON... | |
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