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“When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood.”

Wells Honor Simplicity Ancient Greek Purity Sincerity Rhetoric Composing Illiterate Forums Incumbents Neighbourhoods Metropolis Diction Nativity Aspersion

Book:The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

Source: The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

“Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.”

Truth Virtue Honor Purity Feminine Masculine Masculine And Feminine

Author:David Hare

“Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.”

Giving Wells Government Law Political Individual Community Principles Honor Dignity Responsible Sacred Purity Machinery Respectable Fidelity Hold Fast

Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.”

Giving Should Years Parent Subjects Youth Humility Ought Honor Preserves Purity Despise Modesty Elders Ornaments Forbearance

Author:Ambrose

“How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings, and all attractive objects-how will it be, I say, when all these things leave us-when they will all seem to us a dream, and when works of faith and virtue, of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience, and others will be required of us?”

World Dream Seems Virtue Objects This World Humility Honor Drink Mercy Dresses Riches Obedience Attractive Purity Dwelling Abstinence Meekness Food And Drink Future Life

Author:John of Kronstadt