 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.  The North Carolina Historical Review - Page 1721926Full view - About this book
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 pages
...poles to catch thee; but, with spirit-like tread, thou glidest away through their midst. — SCHILLER. To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. — LOCKE. When the majestic form of Truth approaches it is... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...ourselves. or have been taught by others to imagine. p. IAXJKE— Human Understanding. Bk. II. Ch. XII. 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. 4. LOCKE— Letter to Anthony Collins. £»;. I have already The bitter... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...undisguised, and to whom I might communicate freely what I thought true. Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world and the seedplot of all other virtues, and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1883 - 224 pages
...undisguised, and to whom I might communicate freely what I thought true. 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 I ever met with in... | |
 | Mary Abby Thaxter Peloubet - Bible - 1885 - 346 pages
...Christian's first aim is to learn, not what is popular or what is pleasant, but what is true. — P. 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. Truth, — that golden key that opes the palace of eternity.... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...masses, not that which follows them. 5519 Francis Lieber : On Civil Liberty and SelfGovernment. 1853. 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. 5520 John Locke: Letter to Anthony Collins, Esq. Truth, whether in... | |
 | Mark Pattison - Church and state - 1889 - 460 pages
...other 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 V Spalding has described the moral shock his faith received on hearing... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...masses, not that which follows them. 5519 Francis Lieber : On Civil Liberty and SelfGovernment. 1853. To love truth for truth's sake, is the principal part of human perfection ill this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. 5520 John Locke : Letter to Anthony Collins,... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - Education - 1890 - 614 pages
...they are " our own " or those of our sect or party. Locke on the other * " 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." L. to Bolde, quoted by Fowler, Locke, p. 120. This shows us that according... | |
 | Anthony Collins - Free will and determinism - 1890 - 84 pages
...correspondence ensued. In an early letter, dated Oct. 29, 1703, Locke says : " 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... | |
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