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Indeed a Lawyer through his whole Life ought always to have some Book on Ethicks or the
John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961
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As Aristotle in his Ethicks doth saye of the losse which shippmen do suffer in a tempest/which do cast out of their ship al their Goodes whẽ they be in daunger of shipp wracke: They seame truly to be compelled to do it/and yet willingly they do it/and therfor they are sayed.
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And then in his _Ethicks_, speaking concerning the Happiness of Man, he says, _that it is only in this Life_, and then adds, _that whatsoever People talk of besides, is meer Whimsy and old Wives Fables_.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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It is evident that Aristotle transgressed the rule of his own Ethicks.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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It is evident that Aristotle transgressed the rule of his own Ethicks.
Paras 36-70 1909
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Ethicks_ -- 'one that scorns the smutty way of enjoying things like a slave, because he delights in the celestial way and the Image of God.'
From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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He wrote a polemical tract on _Roman Forgeries_, which had some success; a treatise on _Christian Ethicks_, which, being full of gentle wisdom, was utterly neglected; an exquisite work, _Centuries of Meditations_, never published; and certain poems, which also he left in manuscript.
From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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By great good fortune that evidence was found in _Christian Ethicks_, in a poem which, with some variations, occurred too in the manuscript
From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Shakespear and Johnson had there a sort of classical Authority; for whose masterly Scenes they seem'd to have as implicit a Reverence as formerly for the Ethicks of Aristotle; and were as incapable of allowing Moderns to be their Competitors, as of changing their Academical Habits for gaudy Colours or Embroidery.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889
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'Aristotle's Ethicks, an English translation of them, with notes.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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