The Abbe Goussault, a counsellor at High Court, writes [at the end of the 17th century]: "Familiarizing oneself with one's childre...n, getting them to talk about all manner of things, treating them as sensible people and winning them over with sweetness, is an infallible secret for doing what one wants with them. . . . A few caresses, a few little presents, a few words of cordiality and trust make an impression on their minds, and they are few in number that resist these sweet and easy methods of making them persons of honour and probity."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided am...ong those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With hym ther rood a gentil pardoner Of Rouncivale, his freend and his compeer,... That streight was comen fro the court of Rome.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had a gentleman-like frankness in his behaviour, and as a great point of honour as a minister can have, especially a minister a...t the head of the treasury, where numberless sturdy and insatiable beggars of condition apply, who cannot all be gratified, nor all with safety be refused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fair is my Love, and cruel as she's fair Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny;... Her smiles are lightning, though her pride despair; And her disdains are gall, her favours honey. A modest maid, decked with a blush of honour, Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym... for bankruptcy.... The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men; because they always purchase pleasures, such as men are accustomed to, and desir...e: Nor can any thing restrain or regulate the love of money, but a sense of honour and virtue; which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience, ...he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »