 | Charles Henry Wilson - Anecdotes - 1804 - 428 pages
...to ANTHONY COLLINS, Esq. Outer•, Oct. 29, 03. BELIEVE me, my good friend, to love truth for truths sake is the principal part of human perfection in...virtues; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as any body : what then is there wanting to make you equal to the best, and a friend for any one to be... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - Anecdotes - 1804 - 428 pages
...criminal into the fire," LETTER. JOHN LOCKE to ANTHONY COLLINS, Esq. Gates, Oct. 29, 03. BELIEVE me. my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is...principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-pTot of all other virtues; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as anv body : what then... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 586 pages
...I were now setting out in the world, I should think it my great happiness to have such a companion as you, who had a true relish of truth, would in earnest...; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body. What then is there wanting to make you equal to the best; a friend for... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 588 pages
...receive it undisguised, and to whom I might communicate what I thought true freely. Believe it, ray good friend, to love truth, for truth's sake, is the...; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body. What then is there wanting to make you equal to the best ; a friend for... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...world, I should think it my great happiness to have such a companion as you, who had a true relish for truth ; would in earnest seek it with me ; from whom...; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body. What, then, is there wanting to make you equal to to the best ; a friend... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...from whom I might receive it undisguised ; and to whom 1 might communicate what 1 thought true frecly. Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's...other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, you have as mnch of it a* ever 1 met with in any body. What, then, is there wanting to make you equal to to the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...communicate what I thought true freely. Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's fake, is the principal part of human perfection in this...world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues ; and, ifl mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body. What, then, is there wanting... | |
 | Theology - 1831 - 426 pages
...views and feelings were inspiring and exalted. In one of his letters he says, ' Believe me, my friends, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world,' — a noble maxim, which governed him in all his writings and investigations, enabling him to discover... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pages
...might communicate «bat ! thought true, freely. Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth s sake is the principal part of human perfection in...of all other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, you ban as much of it as ever I met with in any body. What then is there l'i мои.] ANTHONY COLLINS.... | |
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Believe it, my good friend, to love truth, for truth's sake, is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body. 
