 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Evolution - 1899 - 472 pages
...per,' mitted to set a value upon our fortune, but are absolutely forbidden to set any upon our lives. The second is, that when we are raised to a post or preferment, we should never do or permit anything which may seem to imply that we look upon ourselves as inferior to the rank we hold. The third... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - State, The - 1899 - 492 pages
...permitted to set a value upon our fortune, but are absolutely forbidden to set any upon our lives. The second is, that when we are raised to a post or preferment, we should never do or permit anything which may seem to imply that we look upon ourselves as inferior to the rank we hold. The third... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1901 - 438 pages
...The second is, that when we are raised to a post or preferment, we should never do or permit anything which may seem to imply that we look upon ourselves...we hold. <( The third is, that those things which honor forbids are more rigorously forbidden, when the laws do not concur in the prohibition ; and those... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Charles Stokes Carey - Conduct of life - 1912 - 440 pages
...permitted to set a value upon our fortune, but are absolutely forbidden to set any upon our lives. The second is, that when we are raised to a post or preferment, we should never do or permit anything which may seem to imply that we look upon ourselves as inferior to the rank we hold. point... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1901 - 438 pages
...permitted to set a value upon our fortune, but are absolutely forbidden to set any upon our lives. " The second is, that when we are raised to a post or preferment, we should never do or permit anything which may seem to imply that we look upon ourselves as inferior to the rank we hold. " The... | |
 | Montesquieu - Law - 1977 - 522 pages
...to set a value upon our fortune, but it is absolutely forbidden to set any value upon our lives.2* should never do or permit any thing which may seem...look upon ourselves as inferior to the rank we hold. [25] The third is, that those things which honor forbids are more rigorously forbidden, when the laws... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - History - 2000 - 600 pages
...allowed to set a value upon our fortune, but it is absolutely forbidden to set any value upon our lives. The second is, that when we are raised to a post or rank, we should never do or permit any thing which may seem to imply that we look upon ourselves as... | |
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The third is that those things which honour forbids are more rigorously forbidden, when the laws do not concur in the prohibition; and those it commands are more strongly insisted upon, when they happen not... 
