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  • And indeed, evaluative respect and perhaps reverentia for morally good persons are essentially the same as appraisal respect, while respekt, obstacle respect, observantia, directive respect, institutional respect, and care respect can be analyzed as forms of recognition respect.

    Respect Dillon, Robin S. 2007

  • There was a wise old heathen once, who said, “Maxima debetur pueris reverentia” — The greatest reverence is due to children; that is, that grown people should never say or do anything wrong before children, lest they should set them a bad example. —

    The Water Babies 2007

  • Neither reverentia for the moral law nor the felt experience of reverential respect for the sublimity of persons as such (Buss 1999) are forms of appraisal respect, yet because recognition respect is analyzed, first, as holding only in deliberative contexts, and second, as not essentially involving feeling, reverentia seems also not to be a form of recognition respect.

    Respect Dillon, Robin S. 2007

  • On Kant's account, the moral law and people who exemplify it in morally worthy actions elicit reverentia from us, for we experience the law or its exemplification as “something that always trumps our inclinations in determining our wills”

    Respect Dillon, Robin S. 2007

  • Maxima debetur pueris reverentia, and still more to damsels; but if boys and girls will never go where they will hear more to injure them than they will usually do amidst the ordinary conversation of

    Hunting Sketches 2004

  • Quanta ergo cum reverentia, quanto timore, quanta illuc humilitate accedere debet, ` a palude sua procedens et repens ranuncula vilis?

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Quanta ergo cum reverentia, quanto timore, quanta illuc humilitate accedere debet,

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Omnibus quidem quae divina sunt cum reverentia et vehementi cura opertet intendere, maxime autem his quae de Spiritus Sancti divinitate dicuntur, praesertim cum blasphemia in eum sine venia sit; ita ut blasphemantis poena tendatur non solum in omne praesens seculum, sed etiam in futurum.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • 'Spero me secutum in libellis meis tale temperamentum, ut de illis queri non possit, quisquis de se bene senserit, cum salva infimarum quoque personarum reverentia ludant.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • _ 11, 3, 'Septicio Claro praefecto praetorio et Suetonio Tranquillo epistularum magistro multisque aliis, quod apud Sabinam uxorem in usu eius familiarius se tunc egerant quam reverentia domus aulicae postulabat, successores dedit.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

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