 | 1905 - 606 pages
...success and power, or of their date.' And then he states his own view of the historian's function. ' The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me...the currency for the sake of genius or ' success or reputation, we may debase it for the sake of a ' man's influence, of his religion, of his party, of... | |
 | Louise Creighton - 1904 - 494 pages
...authority : still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. . . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me...the currency for the sake of genius or success or reputation, we may debase it for the sake of a man's influence, of his religion, of his party, of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1905 - 680 pages
...authority; still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. . . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me...the currency for the sake of genius, or success, or reputation, we may debase it for the sake of a man's influence, of his religion, of his party, of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1905 - 846 pages
...authority ; still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. . . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me...the currency for the sake of genius, or success, or reputation, we may debase it for the sake of a man's influence, of his religion, of his party, of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1905 - 690 pages
...authority; still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. . . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me...authority, the dignity, the utility of history. If wo may debase the currency for the sake of genius, or success, or reputation, we may debase it for... | |
 | John Stockton Littell - Great Britain - 1910 - 326 pages
...of Henry VIII, Vol. II, p. 104. " Acton : Historical Essays and Studies, pp. 504-506, as follows : "The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to me, the secret of the authority, the dignity, the utillty of History." "The moral code, in its main llnes, is not new, it has long been known. it is... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 666 pages
...increasing as the power increases. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. . . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me...the authority, the dignity, the utility of history." The activities of states are in Acton's view equally bound by the demands of morality.. He saw clearly... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 540 pages
...increasing as the power increases. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. . . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me...the authority, the dignity, the utility of history." The activities of states are in Acton's view equally bound by the demands of morality. He saw clearly... | |
 | Harold Begbie - Great Britain - 1925 - 160 pages
...Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice, still higher for the sake of historical science. ". . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to...the authority, the dignity, the utility of History. "Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but... | |
 | Harold Begbie - England - 1925 - 184 pages
...Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice, still higher for the sake of historical science. "... The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to...the authority, the dignity, the utility of History. "Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but... | |
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The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me the secret of the authority, the dignity, the utility of history. 
