First, it is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty... The American Journal of Sociology - Page 194edited by - 1926Full view - About this book
| Frederic William Farrar - 1868 - 444 pages
...has been said, " manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written upon the tablets of eternity. For every false word, or unrighteous...lust and vanity, the price has to be paid at last. ...Justice and Truth alone endure and live ; Injustice and Falsehood may be long-lived, but doomsday... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1868 - 458 pages
...wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last : not always by the chief offenders, but paid by some one.... | |
| 1870 - 746 pages
...tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty or oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last, not always by the chief offenders, but paid by some one." (Froude.) When covetousness, envy, hatred, and all uncharitableuess have been banished from the earth,... | |
| 1870 - 746 pages
...tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty or oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last, not always by the chief offenders, but paid by some one." (Froude.) When covetousness, envy, hatred, and all uncharitableness have been banished from the earth,... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 pages
...wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last ; not always by the chief offender, but by some one. Justice... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 pages
...wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last ; not always by the chief offender, but by some one. Justice... | |
| John S. Stuart-Glennie - 1873 - 634 pages
...tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty or oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last ; not always...paid by some one. Justice and truth alone endure and live.'1 But Mr. Froude, who declares that ' not patriots, or politicians, or divines are looser, worse,... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1874 - 308 pages
...historian has always heard, proclaiming aloud that "for every false word and unrighteous deed, for insult and oppression, for lust and vanity, the price has to be paid at last. Truth and justice alone endure and live. Falsehood and injustice may be long-lived, but doomsday comes... | |
| James Madison Watson - 1875 - 486 pages
...alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law ia written on the tablets of eternity. 2. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last : not always by the chief offenders, but paid by some one.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...JONATHAN EDWARDS. What can laws do without morals ? B. FRANKLIN. The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last. JA FROUDE: On Great Subjects : Science of History in Short... | |
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