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  • Our fren gremlin has proven to have kwestionublle ethicks and might be making it up to inflooence the outcome of teh game.

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  • It is evident that Aristotle transgressed the rule of his own ethicks; 70 the stoicks, that condemn passion, and command a man to laugh in

    Religio Medici 2007

  • But what wise man would, for momentary gratifications, deliberately subject himself to suffer such uneasiness as we find was experienced by Johnson in reviewing his conduct as compared with his notion of the ethicks of the gospel?

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Could the world unite in the practise of that despised train of virtues, which the divine ethicks of our Saviour hath so inculcated upon us, the furious face of things must disappear; Eden would be yet to be found, and the angels might look down, not with pity, but joy upon us.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

  • LIVE by old ethicks and the classical rules of honesty.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

  • Unto which attempt there want not auxiliaries from the whole strength of morality, supplies from christian ethicks, influences also and illuminations from above, more powerful than the lights of heaven.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

  • Judge Blackstone suggested _ethicks_, but Johnson and Steevens kept to

    Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

  • Surrounded by tribes of savages, whose ethicks counsel theft and murder on every occasion, and authorize treachery and cruelty without discrimination, nothing but the most watchful care, and sagacious prudence can render him even comparatively safe, in the midst of so many dangers as are constantly thrown around him, by a wicked and wily foe.

    Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

  • Thirdly, that from this book may likewise be collected a system of ethicks, in which every moral precept, founded on reason, is carried to a higher degree of purity and perfection, than in any other of the wisest philosophers of preceding ages; every moral precept founded on false principles is totally omitted, and many new precepts added, peculiarly corresponding with the new object of this religion.

    A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion. 1704-1787 1799

  • Thirdly, that from this book may likewise be collected a system of ethicks, in which every moral precept founded on reason is carried to a higher degree of purity and perfection, than in any other of the wisest philosophers of preceding ages; every moral precept founded on false principles is totally omitted, and many new precepts added peculiarly corresponding with the new object of this religion.

    A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion. 1704-1787 1776

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