 Believe it, ray 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.  The Works of John Locke - الصفحة 271بواسطة John Locke - 1823عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...views and feelings were inspiring and exalted. In one of his letters he says, ' Believe me, my friends, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world,' — a noble maxim, which governed him in all his writings and investigations, enabling him to discover... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...might communicate «bat ! thought true, freely. Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth s sake is the principal part of human perfection in...of all other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, you ban as much of it as ever I met with in any body. What then is there l'i мои.] ANTHONY COLLINS.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...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 sake is the...as ever I met with in any body. What then is there v. anting to make you equal to the best, — a friend for any one to be proud of?" In another letter,... | |
 | John James Tayler - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...philosopher addressed those memorable words, preserved in his correspondence : — " Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake, is the...have as much of it as ever I met with in any body." For him, too, he left a letter of affectionate counsels, to be delivered after his decease. There must... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...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 sake is the...as ever I met with in any body. What then is there v. anting to make you equal to the best, — a friend for any one to be proud of?'' In another letter,... | |
 | John James Tayler - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...philosopher addressed those memorable words, preserved in his correspondence : — " Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake, is the...not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in anybody." For him, too, he left a letter of affectionate counsels, to be delivered after his decease.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...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 sake, is the...not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in anybody. What, then, is there wanting to make you equal to the best ; a friend for any one to be proud... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 210
...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 sake, is the...seed-plot of all other virtues; and, if I mistake not, yon have as mnch of it as ever I met with in anybody. What, then, is there wanting to make you equal... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh, Anthony Collins, John Watts, William Harral Johnson - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...receive it undisguised, and to whom I might communicate what 1 thought true, freely. Believe it my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake, is the...perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtue; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in anybody. What, then, is... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...to damage their own cause with young ingenuous minds, bred in the school of Locke to believe that " 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 " (Locke, aet. 73, Letter to Collins). Spalding has described the... | |
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