Whilst He corrects and rectifies me in France, He corrects and sets right other men in China, Japan, Mexico, and in Peru, by the same principles.
But it is above me, since it corrects and rectifies me; gives me a distrust of myself, and makes me sensible of my impotency.
In his account of the vessels and their valves he confirms some of Hewson's observations and rectifies others.
He visits his estate, rectifies its boundaries, protects its approaches, and, in spite of the immensity of the work, takes a minute inventory of it.
While the foe is at its gates, it rectifies its grammars, goes back to origins, rejects new words, and revives the ancient language of Demosthenes.
Is it not this that rightly rectifies our judgment about ourselves, that makes us to know ourselves, that tends to cut off those superfluous sprigs of pride and self-conceitedness, wherewith we are subject to be overcome?
Wherefore, for prudence there is need of a moral virtue, whichrectifies the appetite.
For it is evident that a craftsman is inclined by justice, which rectifies his will, to do his work faithfully.
For the stronger this inclination is, the more perilous may it prove to be, unless it be accompanied by right reason, which rectifies the choice of fitting means towards the due end.
Without nature, he never would have conceived this ideal; but with this ideal, he judges nature herself, rectifies her, and dares undertake to measure himself with her.
But simplicity is not a special virtue, since it rectifies the intention, and that is required in every virtue.
Justice is the same as rectitude, not essentially but causally; for it is a habit which rectifies the deed and the will.
And it rectifies the intention, not indeed directly (since this belongs to every virtue), but by excluding duplicity, whereby a man pretends one thing and intends another.
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