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Affirmations James Warne and his wife have produced their Books and solemnly affirmed to the legality and Justness of their accts. and evidently made appear that Murphys charge was Malicious and illfounded.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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The PROVERBS, like other compositions of this kind, must rest chiefly on their moral Justness, Utility, Simplicity, and Conciseness, rather than on poetic Excellence: though neither in form nor coloring are they deficient of that compos'd and grave Beauty which the Nature of the
An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects Nathaniel Bloomfield
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Since I had at first resolv'd not to enter into any Critical Controversie, I won't pretend to enquire into the Justness of Mr. _Rhymer_'s Remarks on
Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe
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There ought to meet, according to him, Proportion in the Design, Justness in the
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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All the Company acknowledged the Justness of the Observation, and thanked Little _Two-Shoes_ for her Advice.
Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766 Anonymous
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Father, and Resolution to Revenge his Death, as _Orestes_; he has the same Abhorrence for his Mother's Guilt, which, to provoke him the more, is heighten'd by Incest: But 'tis with wonderful Art and Justness of
Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe
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The poetry of the Houyhnhnms, he says must be allowed to excel (that of) all other Mortals; wherein the Justness of their Similes, and the Minuteness, as well as exactness, of their Descriptions, are, indeed, inimitable.
Collected Essays 1900
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Justness is fidelity in so far as it preserves love for and verifies it upon the object; it is temperateness in so far as it respects every-where the measure and the limits of the moral person and of the object; and it is courage in so far as it carries out and vindicates the just.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Justness is the highest of the moral virtues, and includes in itself also piety, thankfulness, etc.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Justness in its special form — that which gives to every one his dues — appears in the three following commandments, which require the preserving of every one in his rights, in respect to life, to wedlock-fidelity and to property.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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