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1. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it
2. Here I see another trilogy; the obedient (moral) Man, those who live through, and share in the fruits of his moral rectitude (learned behavior), and then there are those who come after, who tend toward a kind of forgetfulness of the purpose of the original experience
3. Was Israel then long overdue for a major consequence sometime between the last prophet and the appearance of John the Baptist? Was this correction the seemingly sudden appearance of the Greek juggernaut (323 BC) that utterly destroyed the Persian entity that had let God’s chosen go back to Jerusalem? Had these Israelites had the time to stray from the post-release praise of their God who endeavored to reconstitute their moral rectitude?
4. 1 'And the bright eighth waters which you have seen, this is the rectitude and uprightness of Hezekiah king of Judah and the grace of
5. the Mighty One may be reconciled to you, and that He may not reckon the multitude of your sins, but remember the rectitude of your
6. then, it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honours,
7. accompanied by a life of rectitude, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom
8. He conceded the rectitude of my citations of the FAR and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement which explicitly forbade these actions and said that they were grounds for the USG to refuse payment—even for services and/or hardware which it had already received and used
9. with a strong sense of moral rectitude
10. 1 'And the bright eighth waters which you have seen this is the rectitude and uprightness of Hezekiah king of Judah and the grace of God which came on him; 2 For when Sennacherib was stirred up in order that he might perish and his wrath troubled him in order that he might by it perish for the multitude also of the nations which were with him
11. 10 And at all times make request perseveringly and pray diligently with your whole heart that the Mighty One may be reconciled to you and that He may not reckon the multitude of your sins but remember the rectitude of your fathers
12. 10 For their virtues then it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honours I may count them happy
13. 14 Let us determine then what is reasoning? and what passion? and how many forms of the passions? and whether reasoning bears sway over all of these? 15 Reasoning is then intellect accompanied by a life of rectitude putting foremost the consideration of wisdom
14. Instead, I praised his moral rectitude, thanked him for his warning and set off for the Mays’ – imagination ablaze with tales of noble lust
15. These paragons of private school rectitude were just as fascinated as the men and women who paid to watch me
16. He was a proud father, eminent businessman, upholder of cultural and religious rectitude, and single minded in his determination that his son would become a suitable ornament to crown his financial and social success
17. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without rectitude
18. The Mercury conjunction types don’t have this problem because they repress their shame completely and rarely permit themselves a moment’s conscious doubt – hence their forcefulness and unshakeable conviction of rectitude
19. This blessed house was indeed like a Ka’ba, a focal point, for all his murids (disciples) and all those who honestly sought truth, rectitude and religion
20. You have not a shred of evidence to support your vile claims which, in my view, are aimed at soliciting money rather than furthering the cause of moral rectitude
21. Though Ralf paid no attention to any sect other than the very select Cult of Ralf, he could not help but marvel at the inane drivel---the melding of righteous urgency and moral rectitude and all based in the inevitability of The Prophecy
22. Austin wondered that even campus life, during which girls usually engage in all manners of romantic experiments and sensual exploits in the name of freedom and maturity, did not change my moral rectitude
23. Morrison could not for all that dissemble the disappointment and sternness of her heart, and the old lady glanced up at her as she came in with a kind of quavering fearfulness, like that of a little child who is afraid it may be going to be whipped, or of a conscientious dog who has lapsed unaccountably from rectitude
24. � We can choose to hear this as a rejection of everything we felt worthwhile and loving thus far, and such a choice, to feel rejection, will result in hurt and a sense of diminished power which will trigger defensiveness, anger, and a need to reestablish hierarchical rectitude through some immediate and often upsetting action
25. Even if they see every sign, they will not believe in it; and if they see the path of rectitude, they will not adopt it for a path; and if they see the path of error, they will adopt it for a path
26. The reason is not found in a calculation of consequences in the external world, nor in any supposed counterweight of pain or terror in a finite being, that must be placed vicariously in the lightened scale of forgiveness; but in the heights and depths of the Godhead alone; in the holiness which abhors evil; in the rectitude which intensely loves the law; in the wisdom which must demonstrate that the Salvation of Sinners is no easy process; and in the boundless grace which resolves to endure all that sin and sinners can inflict, as a demonstration of the impossibility there is, even for Omnipotence, to save by an arbitrary act, without a 'ransom’ and a sacrifice
27. It guides to rectitude, so we have believed in it; and we will never associate anyone with our Lord
28. As for those who have submitted-it is they who pursue rectitude
29. They told me they trusted and confided their honour and good name to my virtue and rectitude alone, and bade me consider the disparity between Don Fernando and myself, from which I might conclude that his intentions, whatever he might say to the contrary, had for their aim his own pleasure rather than my advantage; and if I were at all desirous of opposing an obstacle to his unreasonable suit, they were ready, they said, to marry me at once to anyone I preferred, either among the leading people of our own town, or of any of those in the neighbourhood; for with their wealth and my good name, a match might be looked for in any quarter
30. Finally she decided upon what was the worse course for her, to remain, resolving not to fly from the presence of Lothario, that she might not give food for gossip to her servants; and she now began to regret having written as she had to her husband, fearing he might imagine that Lothario had perceived in her some lightness which had impelled him to lay aside the respect he owed her; but confident of her rectitude she put her trust in God and in her own virtuous intentions, with which she hoped to resist in silence all the solicitations of Lothario, without saying anything to her husband so as not to involve him in any quarrel or trouble; and she even began to consider how to excuse Lothario to Anselmo when he should ask her what it was that induced her to write that letter
31. Don Quixote was comforted by the prophecy he heard, for he at once comprehended its meaning perfectly, and perceived it was promised to him that he should see himself united in holy and lawful matrimony with his beloved Dulcinea del Toboso, from whose blessed womb should proceed the whelps, his sons, to the eternal glory of La Mancha; and being thoroughly and firmly persuaded of this, he lifted up his voice, and with a deep sigh exclaimed, "Oh thou, whoever thou art, who hast foretold me so much good, I implore of thee that on my part thou entreat that sage enchanter who takes charge of my interests, that he leave me not to perish in this captivity in which they are now carrying me away, ere I see fulfilled promises so joyful and incomparable as those which have been now made me; for, let this but come to pass, and I shall glory in the pains of my prison, find comfort in these chains wherewith they bind me, and regard this bed whereon they stretch me, not as a hard battle-field, but as a soft and happy nuptial couch; and touching the consolation of Sancho Panza, my squire, I rely upon his goodness and rectitude that he will not desert me in good or evil fortune; for if, by his ill luck or mine, it may not happen to be in my power to give him the island I have promised, or any equivalent for it, at least his wages shall not be lost; for in my will, which is already made, I have declared the sum that shall be paid to him, measured, not by his many faithful services, but by the means at my disposal
32. "If any handsome woman come to seek justice of thee, turn away thine eyes from her tears and thine ears from her lamentations, and consider deliberately the merits of her demand, if thou wouldst not have thy reason swept away by her weeping, and thy rectitude by her sighs
33. Who, hearing the foregoing discourse of Don Quixote, would not have set him down for a person of great good sense and greater rectitude of purpose? But, as has been frequently observed in the course of this great history, he only talked nonsense when he touched on chivalry, and in discussing all other subjects showed that he had a clear and unbiassed understanding; so that at every turn his acts gave the lie to his intellect, and his intellect to his acts; but in the case of these second counsels that he gave Sancho he showed himself to have a lively turn of humour, and displayed conspicuously his wisdom, and also his folly
34. censure, when convinced of the rectitude of my own intentions
35. Yes; eagerly as I wish you to possess true rectitude of mind, and purity of affection, I must insist that a heartless conduct is the contrary of virtuous
36. Elinor saw, and pitied her for, the neglect of abilities which education might have rendered so respectable; but she saw, with less tenderness of feeling, the thorough want of delicacy, of rectitude, and integrity of mind, which her attentions, her assiduities, her flatteries at the Park betrayed; and she could have no lasting satisfaction in the company of a person who joined insincerity with ignorance; whose want of instruction prevented their meeting in conversation on terms of equality, and whose conduct toward others made every shew of attention and deference towards herself perfectly valueless
37. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast
38. As he stood there in the forefront of this company, there was nothing in his refined and comely exterior to indicate that his real function was to pander to and flatter them; to invest with an air of respectability and rectitude the abominably selfish lives of the gang of swindlers, slave-drivers and petty tyrants who formed the majority of the congregation of the Shining Light Chapel
39. Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest youth
40. But the doctrine of political rectitude was immortal
41. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle
42. Even before that woman, whom he loved with secret devotion, he had been defeated by the magnificent Capataz de Cargadores, the man who had lived his own life on the assumption of unbroken fidelity, rectitude, and courage!
43. And his rectitude was heroic, Regan felt, given the arc of his cognitive decline, and even before
44. She was now enough aware of Sir James's position with regard to her, to appreciate the rectitude of his perseverance in a landlord's duty, to which he had at first been urged by a lover's complaisance, and her pleasure in it was great enough to count for something even in her present happiness
45. Casaubon, putting his conduct in the light of mere rectitude: a trait of delicacy which Dorothea noticed with admiration
46. much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best
47. Having the scruples of rectitude in our souls, we are above the meanness of injuring him—rather we meet all his claims on us by active benefits; and the drawing of cheques for him, being a superiority which he must recognize, gives our bitterness a milder infusion
48. Casaubon, we know, had a sense of rectitude and an honorable pride in satisfying the requirements of honor, which compelled him to find other reasons for his conduct than those of jealousy and vindictiveness
49. God's cause was something distinct from his own rectitude of conduct: it enforced a discrimination of God's enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments, and whom it would be as well if possible to keep out of money and consequent influence
50. You offer me negotiations! But what is the aim of your alliance with England? What has she given you?’ he continued hurriedly, evidently no longer trying to show the advantages of peace and discuss its possibility, but only to prove his own rectitude and power and Alexander’s errors and duplicity