We can certainly appeal to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions.
She kept her line of rectitude With love's unconscious ease; Her kindly instincts understood All gentle courtesies.
Penn, conscious of therectitude of his own motives and thoroughly convinced of the Christian duty of toleration, welcomed that declaration as the precursor of the golden age of liberty and love and good-will to men.
Conscious of nothing but rectitude in my regard for you, always frank and ingenuous in disclosing my feelings, I imagined that Talbot would adopt you as warmly for his friend as I had done.
Why, why was I born, or why received I breath in a world and at a period, with whose inhabitants I can have no sympathy, whose notions of rectitude and decency find no answering chord in my heart?
Having once been guilty, the returning path to rectitude is forever barred against him.
I regard in its true light what you can say with respect to a reconcilement with my father, and am always ready to comply with your wishes in the only way that a conviction of my own rectitude will permit.
SIR,--The heart which is conscious of its own rectitude cannot attempt to palliate a step which the world may censure as wrong.
In assuming the attributes of sovereign power, the Colonists appealed to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of their intentions, and neither claimed nor conferred authority to do anything but of Right.
He saw clearly, he felt deeply, and he thought straight; hence the rectitude of his mind, the sanity of his spirit, the justice of his dealings with the things which make for life and art.
Perhaps his obtrusive virtues made him enemies, and his rectitude was a standing offense to his associates.
Never did I meet with more intuitive rectitude of mind, more native delicacy, more exquisite propriety in word, thought, and action, than in this young creature.
Probably the man who first said that the line of rectitude corresponds with the line of enjoyment was disliked as well as disbelieved.
Thus, in consequence of the rectitude of his conduct, as is natural to man, he was venerated by the nobility, and beloved by the common people.
Oswy, thus sovereign of the entire kingdom, did every thing to wipe out this foul stain, and to increase his dignity, extenuating the enormity of that atrocious deed by the rectitude of his future conduct.
He proved to be one of the most trusted and influential of the company's managers--a native of Scotland, and much loved and respected among the inferior retainers of the settlement, for an obliging disposition and great rectitude of principle.
The early lessons I had received in rectitude embittered all my guilty joys, and at length triumphed.
The system of Mandeville ascribes our impressions of moral rectitude entirely to the enactments of legislators.
And yet the conscience of Arthur Franklyn could only at times arouse him to doubt the rectitude of his own conduct.
All the feelings of a simple and undissembling mind have been roused by turns, to excite me to a deed, from which rectitude starts back with horror, which integrity blushes to look on!
Or do those who are most hardened, really possess the superiority; and can conscious guilt bid defiance to shame, while rectitude is continually liable to hide her head in confusion?
The rectitude of my actions is immaculate, and my honour has been repeatedly asserted with my sword.
The empire ofrectitude shall one day be vindicated.
Those who may have been excited to question the rectitude of established habits of diet by these loose remarks, should consult Mr. Newton's luminous and eloquent essay.
It is true that mental and bodily derangement is attributable in part to other deviations from rectitude and nature than those which concern diet.
He exuded conscious rectitudeand plainly resented any suggestion of bias.
I insist that there is no use for any holier-than-thou gentleman to become suffused with any glow of indignant conscious rectitude based on the premises we are considering.
He thought such conduct would give an alarm to the inhabitants of the United States; it amounted to a declaration, that, on this important question, they would not be governed by principles founded on rectitude and good policy.
I noted the strict rectitude which, for all that men ignorant of modern commerce may say, is at the basis of commercial success.
To be useful to as many as possible is the especial duty of a critic, and his utility can only be attained by rectitude and precision.
Islam gives an easier, clearer line of rectitude to a trader than its great rival in Africa--under African conditions.
No inducements could turn him from the path of rectitude and duty.
Unblemished rectitude marked his whole career, philanthropy his entire course, justice his every action.
He was a farmer, a man of strong common sense and instilled into the mind of his son the enduring principles of moral rectitude that governed his actions through life.
Nay more--desirous of seducing you into a deviation from the paths of rectitude from which they had so far and rashly wandered, they made most specious offers to tempt you into a violation of your faith given to your illustrious ally.
By his suavity of manners, moral rectitude and honorable course he gained the confidence and esteem of all who made his acquaintance.
From his solicitude to direct a wayward son in the paths of rectitude he was reported unkind to his family.
A deviation from the path of rectitude in this particular is uniformly attended with evil consequences and often with those most disastrous.
Religion and moral rectitude prepared him for a career of usefulness.
It makes little difference whether the officer who obtains his place in this manner is otherwise a good man--put in by a party he must do what they order without being permitted to examine the rectitude even of his own actions.
Murmurs and ill-will against Kallikratidas—energy and rectitude whereby he represses them.
This is not virtue, it is want of heart; it is not heroism, but foolishness; not rectitude of conscience, but vanity.
Conscious of the rectitude of my intentions, I do not fear any scrutiny you may make on my conduct; for which, if you hereafter demand satisfaction, you shall find me ready to render it, in any way you require.
Nor need we doubt it: the God to whom he is gone, will condemn or acquit us according to the rectitude of our hearts, not the frailties of our words or actions.
They direct many a judgment which ought not to rely on itself; they aid faltering rectitude with the strength of numbers; for, degenerate as we are, numbers are still upon the side of feminine decorum.
That a mother should thus lay a snare for the rectitudeof her child, must have appeared incredible, could the fact have admitted of a doubt.
He might not be afraid of his relations; but at the back of his mind he was sufficiently conscious of his own departure from the paths of rectitude to feel the weakness of his position.
If Fenton himself sometimes appeared hurt at the fact that she did not display more outward affection towards him or the children, she seldom worried over the matter, being fully conscious of her own rectitude of conduct and feeling.
But I do not think they will separate; because they have the same honest views; because, each being confident of the rectitude of the other, there is no rancor between them; because they retain the desire of coalescing.
I am well satisfied that every thing goes on with a wisdom and rectitude which I could not improve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rectitude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
