 | Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 580 pages
...myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is —Oh devil ! truth is better than much profit. I have searched...after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie. Your letter leads me to think he was right, though not perhaps in the sense he attached to his own... | |
 | 1901 - 134 pages
...of the hopes and the consolations of the mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is — Oh, devil ! truth is better than much profit. I have searched...the other, as the penalty, still I will not lie." And again, let me read this passage : "As I stood beside the coffin of my little son the other day,... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 336 pages
...was to have stripped myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind. To which my only reply was, and is, O devil ! truth is better than...self-deception. It was a noble exhibition of intellectual honesty raised to a truly Puritanic fervour of self-abnegation. Just because life is sweet, and the... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 346 pages
...was to have stripped myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind. To which my only reply was, and is, O devil! truth is better than much...self-deception. It was a noble exhibition of intellectual honesty raised to a truly Puritanic fervour of self-abnegation. Just because life is sweet, and the... | |
 | James Hervey Hyslop - 1905 - 674 pages
...of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind ? To which my only reply was and is — Oh the devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched...to me one after the other as the penalty, still I would not He. " And now I feel that it is due to you to speak as frankly as you have done to me. An... | |
 | James Hervey Hyslop - 1905 - 672 pages
...of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind ? To which my only reply was and is — Oh the devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched...to me one after the other as the penalty, still I would not lie. " And now I feel that it is due to you to speak as frankly as you have done to me. An... | |
 | George Thomson Knight - 1906 - 102 pages
...and to set an example of toleration for every thing but lying; and again he wrote : " I have searched the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were to be lost to me, one after another, as a penalty, still I would not lie." Time was, in the early stages... | |
 | William Herbert Perry Faunce - 1908 - 310 pages
...was to have stripped myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is : O devil ! truth is better than...the other, as the penalty, still I will not lie." ' In such an utterance there is the very spirit of the apostles and martyrs — without, alas! their... | |
 | Homer H. Cooper - 1914 - 300 pages
...Truth," said the great English biologist, Thomas Huxley, at one of the most trying moments of his life, " truth is better than much profit. I have searched...the other, as the penalty, still I will not lie." In the second place, it is our duty to do right. This principle means that we must do a thing, not... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes - 1915 - 416 pages
...to find comfort in the immortal hope, the heroic man replied,—'' I have searched over the ground of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame...to me one after the other as the penalty, still I would not lie." 1 The logic of St. Paul and of Omar, therefore, does not hold. It makes no practical... | |
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I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie. 
