Justice
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4.Fairness and right dealing between persons
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 175He tries to be just, true, sincere and faithful to all men.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, On LibertyVol. 25
- p. 247Restraining vituperation serves truth and justice; honoring those who fairly state opponents' views is the real morality of public discussion.read · scan
4a.Fraud, cheating and exploiting necessity
Aesop, FablesVol. 17
- p. 12The powerful cheat their helpers of the fruits of common labor.read · scan
- p. 18–19The fox plays a mean joke on the stork.read · scan
Luke, The Gospel According to LukeVol. 44
- p. 361–362Publicans and soldiers told to extort no more than appointed, not to accuse wrongfully, and to share coats and food.read · scan
Plutarch, AlcibiadesVol. 12
- p. 114He buys Diomedes' chariot then claims it as his own, provoking a charge of injustice and a lawsuit.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 204Omitting material points is a fraud upon one's client.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 264Deceiving is acting unjustly.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 907Shuaib demands honest measure and fair balance, no cheating of men; God destroys cities only after warning, never unjustly.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 171The owner cruelly tricks and abuses a blind beggar.read · scan
- p. 204The broker warns that the Wezir will cheat the seller of payment through injustice.read · scan
- p. 204–205The Wezir would cheat the seller by giving an order for money that his agents will refuse to pay.read · scan
- p. 239–240The master refuses to hand over goods to a supposed impostor, calling it unlawful to take them without price.read · scan
- p. 362The Jew cheats the ignorant youth, paying a dinar for a plate worth far more.read · scan
- p. 362–363A just jeweller who fears God warns Ala-ed-Din that the Jew habitually defrauds Muslims.read · scan
- p. 363The honest jeweller pays seventy dinars, exposing the Jew's fraud and dealing fairly by the truth of God.read · scan
Traditional BalladsVol. 40
- p. 137–140The prior rebukes the abbot's lack of conscience in seizing the land of a man suffering abroad.read · scan
Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German NationVol. 36
- p. 284–285Benefices are taken from one holder and given to another who pays, violating justice.read · scan
- p. 296Papal possessions were taken by force and robbery, without right.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 322–323Cellini defends what he takes as his right against a fraudulent seizure, demanding the King's own warrant.read · scan
- p. 432Cellini is cheated by a rigged arbitration and deceitful contract, finds no defence, and must yield to the injustice.read · scan
- p. 433Cellini blunders into further rascalities by the same men and leaves his cause to God.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of the Institution and Education of ChildrenVol. 32
- p. 29Concealing what one has filched from others is called a manifest note of injustice and cowardice.read · scan
William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan EnglandVol. 35
- p. 249Clerks of the market cheat with false measures and fees; tenants defrauded by iniquitous bushels and landlords' receivers.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 413He doubts the Christians' liberality, thinking they will not return freedom without profit.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 87–88Bargains exploiting others' necessity, and usury, are crafty and evil, living by another's sweat.read · scan
Ben Jonson, The AlchemistVol. 47
- p. 543Quarrel over equal shares in the tripartite venture, 'all things in common without priority'.read · scan
- p. 585–589Ananias would deal justly with orphans of the sincere but by implication cozen others.read · scan
- p. 653–655Subtle sardonically claims that cheating Face is no deceit but justice, for breaking their partnership.read · scan
- p. 657–658Lovewit feigns ignorance and demands warrants while officers and dupes burst in seeking the cheats; law invoked against the swindlers.read · scan
Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old DebtsVol. 47
- p. 911Lovell rejects what is gained by unjust and cruel means.read · scan
- p. 931–933Wellborn claims right will defend him and punish Overreach's extortion; fraudulent title is defeated.read · scan
- p. 933Marrall refuses perjury, turns on his master and vows to expose the practices by which Overreach cozened whole families.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 82–83Men say fairer dealing may be had from a Turk than from him, for he defrauds.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 336–337Maxims on truthfulness and not reporting harm against others without good authority imply fairness toward others, but justice is not named or treated directly.read · scan
- p. 337–338Penn says accusing others to excuse oneself is neither generous nor just; justice linked with sincerity as against craft and falsehood.read · scan
- p. 344–345Do not take advantage of another's ignorance or necessity; that is next to fraud.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 20–21He admits it was unfair to exploit the secret indentures, one of his first errata.read · scan
- p. 92Filling subscribers' papers with private altercation would do them manifest injustice.read · scan
- p. 153–154Detained passengers and merchants suffer injury from the general's deceit; one threatens suit.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 286Labors for 'universal righteousness' in trade.read · scan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for ScandalVol. 18
- p. 191–192Joseph pretends regard to justice compels him to reveal Lady Sneerwell's injuries.read · scan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household TalesVol. 17
- p. 124–126Thieves planning to rob the rich pastor are foiled by the trickster.read · scan
- p. 129One sentry spares the 'poor creature' that has done no harm; Thumbling nonetheless aids theft.read · scan
- p. 171–172The lad frightens Hans with the threat of punishment for a stolen pig, and cheats him in the exchange.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, On LibertyVol. 25
- p. 272–273Encroachment on others' rights and unfair use of advantages are fit objects of reprobation.read · scan
- p. 290Competitive success that harms rivals is legitimate; society interferes only against fraud, treachery or force.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 269Deception by the shipping-master and neglect by owners who would have interfered had they known.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Twenty-Four Years AfterVol. 23
- p. 398Natives accuse Thompson of cheating on weights and demand payment under threat of imprisonment.read · scan
4b.Broken promises and ingratitude
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 63Penelope condemns the wooers' unseemly deeds and ingratitude, contrasting Odysseus, who wronged no man.read · scan
Aesop, FablesVol. 17
- p. 13The wolf refuses the promised reward, calling survival reward enough; ingratitude and broken promise.read · scan
- p. 15Mercy repaid with gratitude; a kindness returned.read · scan
- p. 20Kindness to the lion is repaid; the slave is pardoned and freed.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 152–165Dido protests his ingratitude and treason; justice and truth have fled.read · scan
Plutarch, AlcibiadesVol. 12
- p. 132Tisaphernes unjustly seizes Alcibiades to clear himself with the Spartans.read · scan
Plutarch, CoriolanusVol. 12
- p. 150Rigorous, inhuman treatment of debtors and the senate's broken promise of gentler treatment after their war service.read · scan
- p. 180It is base and unjust to ruin fellow-citizens or betray those who trusted him.read · scan
Plutarch, DemosthenesVol. 12
- p. 202He is thought to have acted dishonorably in supplying both adversaries in a lawsuit with weapons.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 75Students who break faith for love of money hold justice cheap; he hates them mainly for the harm they do to him.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 27The fisherman protests that death is no recompense for freeing the Jinni.read · scan
- p. 27–28The 'Efrit repays his liberator's kindness with a death sentence; the fisherman protests that good deserves recompense, not baseness.read · scan
- p. 37Duban pleads that he is being repaid evil for good; an officer notes the sage has committed no offence.read · scan
- p. 39Verses and fisherman's argument: those who act equitably receive equity, the oppressive are ruined; he who wrongs a benefactor deserves recompense.read · scan
- p. 375The Sultan breaks his covenant and gives the princess to the Wezir's son, an injustice to Ala-ed-Din.read · scan
- p. 376Ala-ed-Din invokes the Sultan's broken promise to justify seizing the bride and bridegroom.read · scan
The Voyages to VinlandVol. 43
- p. 17Freydis breaks her compact by hiding extra men and claims the house against promises, prompting charges of wrong dealing.read · scan
The Story of the Volsungs and NiblungsVol. 49
- p. 347–348Hogni accuses Atli of breaking the peace first.read · scan
Traditional BalladsVol. 40
- p. 100–102The king breaks his written promise of safety and condemns Armstrong and his men as traitors to hang.read · scan
- p. 102–104Armstrong notes there is no grace from a graceless king; he is betrayed by a false Scot.read · scan
Niccolò Machiavelli, The PrinceVol. 36
- p. 73Victors cannot disregard considerations of justice, and few destroy a benefactor with ingratitude.read · scan
Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German NationVol. 36
- p. 279Since covenants on annates are broken, Rome has no right to them; princes must punish the thievery as justice demands.read · scan
- p. 317–318Huss and Jerome were burnt in violation of a safe-conduct; Luther says this wrong must be honestly confessed.read · scan
- p. 318–319Even a heretic was burnt unjustly; a safe-conduct must be kept though the world perish.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 226–227The Pope breaks his word and pardon, and the Cardinal trades away Cellini for a bishopric, with worry about what the world will say.read · scan
- p. 370Bandinello is forced to admit his promise of the marble and must deliver the block Cellini was owed.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King LearVol. 46
- p. 271–273Edmund says he must 'repent to be just', ironically casting betrayal as justice.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. John DonneVol. 15
- p. 326–327Ellesmere gives Donne a fair commendation as a friend and secretary fitter to serve a king, though he must dismiss him.read · scan
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life Is a DreamVol. 26
- p. 66Rosaura appeals for redress of her injured innocence against Astolfo, who betrayed her marriage vows.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 326Discontent at losing what is God's own is ingratitude and injustice.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 136–137Braddock grants release of enlisted servants, but Dunbar breaks his promise, wronging poor farmers who traveled to Trenton.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 242–243The citizen's claim is prior, paramount and superior in equity; no man can mortgage his injustice as a pledge for fidelity.read · scan
- p. 244The Assembly's laxity of public faith toward treaties and creditors admits no equitable justification.read · scan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household TalesVol. 17
- p. 95–96The king repents his promise and withholds the promised reward.read · scan
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 926–927She fears giving a sorrowful love to one above her would be unjust.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 200The escaped captain breaks his promise and never seeks the rescue of his comrades.read · scan
4c.Wages, debts and restitution
See also: Chivalry 7c
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 13Wooers devour another's livelihood without atonement.read · scan
- p. 18–19He warns wooers that unatoned waste of another's goods will bring divine recompense.read · scan
- p. 22He appeals to neighbours, the gods and Themis against the wooers' wrongful devouring of his goods, seeking recompense.read · scan
- p. 24–25He calls on the gods for acts of recompense against the wooers' waste.read · scan
- p. 53–54Wooers wrongfully consume Telemachus's flocks and lands, despiteful beyond measure.read · scan
- p. 108–109Euryalus atones with a bronze sword for his insult, repairing the offence.read · scan
Aristophanes, The FrogsVol. 8
- p. 455The hostesses demand redress for the gluttonous 'Heracles' who ate and fled without paying, threatening to summon Cleon and writs.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters of CiceroVol. 9
- p. 142Cicero holds interest to twelve per cent by edict against Scaptius's forty-eight, protecting the Salaminians from ruin and cruelty.read · scan
- p. 142Payment is legally good by his decree, though whether just is left to Atticus to judge.read · scan
- p. 147–148He keeps the publicani from oppressing anyone while treating debtors at a reasonable rate.read · scan
Luke, The Gospel According to LukeVol. 44
- p. 402Zacchaeus offers fourfold restitution for wrongful exactions.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 281Asks that a debt owed by the dead man's estate be paid in full with interest.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 973God bids men pay trusts to owners and judge between men with justice.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 146–148The governor recognizes the hand was cut off wrongfully and orders the market chief fined and imprisoned in compensation.read · scan
- p. 165The couple cheat him of wages and humiliate him without cause.read · scan
Traditional BalladsVol. 40
- p. 157–159Robin reasons that the monk, as Our Lady's servant, must repay the surety's debt.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 142Restitution goes to the owner, not the king, who has no more right to stolen goods than the thief.read · scan
- p. 189They think it neither right nor conscience to take from others what is profitable to them and useless to themselves, so debts are seldom collected.read · scan
Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German NationVol. 36
- p. 280Papal appropriation of benefices is robbery; stolen property should be returned and thieves punished by the emperor's authority.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 26–27Cellini claims his wages due and wins payment through argument and the support of the chief goldsmith.read · scan
- p. 42Cellini refuses to surrender the mended vase until he is paid for his work.read · scan
- p. 42He defends his property and labor against seizure, insisting on payment, and appeals to the Pope.read · scan
- p. 110The thief's guilt is proven by the dropped packets and ring, and stolen goods are restored.read · scan
- p. 120Cellini insists the unfinished chalice is his own, though he offers to return the five hundred crowns.read · scan
- p. 121He invokes God's justice, which has no peer on earth, and asserts the work is his own.read · scan
- p. 121–123Cellini argues a patron may dismiss a craftsman only by paying for work done; a Pope, unlike petty tyrants, may not act without justice.read · scan
- p. 158Cellini protests that the arrangement is neither just nor reasonable; the Duke sides with him against Ottaviano's presumption.read · scan
- p. 198A dispute over paying the guide who helped the rescue, which Cellini insists is deserved, escalates to threats.read · scan
- p. 200–201Cellini forgoes lopping off his defaulting workman's arm and sues him lawfully, winning and having him imprisoned.read · scan
- p. 290He offers to pay their costs if the treasurers enforce the contract, since they worked honestly, winning the officers' goodwill.read · scan
- p. 408Cellini feels pillaged by the official's broken promise to pay.read · scan
- p. 409He complains of abominable injustice from the officials of the Exchequer.read · scan
- p. 434Cellini declares the Duchess and Duke have done him a great wrong through neglect.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 37Quixote demands the farmer pay the boy's owed wages and stop beating him, and makes the accounting himself.read · scan
- p. 37Quixote argues the blows cancel the shoes and bloodletting and insists on full payment, extracting an oath.read · scan
- p. 37Quixote's supposed righting of wrongs proves futile: the farmer breaks his oath and beats Andrew nearly to death after he leaves.read · scan
- p. 147–148Quixote offers amends and pardon for the wrong he inflicted.read · scan
- p. 193–194Sancho would keep the money until the owner appears; Quixote argues that suspecting the owner makes them possessors in bad faith, bound to restore it.read · scan
- p. 268–269Cardenio hopes Heaven will restore each their own and vows to right the wrong done Dorothea, challenging Fernando if reason fails.read · scan
- p. 296–297Andrew was beaten for demanding his wages; Quixote's intervention exacts a worthless oath and worsens the injustice.read · scan
- p. 297–298Quixote vows to punish the peasant and see Andrew paid, but Andrew rejects his oaths and curses knights-errant for their harm.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 94The dying worldling refuses restitution or freeing the oppressed out of pride and concern for his son.read · scan
Nathaniel Ward, The Body of LibertiesVol. 43
- p. 68–69Fraudulent conveyances void against debts; bail preserves liberty until sentence.read · scan
- p. 71–72Debtors imprisoned only when estate cannot satisfy; false complainants fined; appeal and complaint against injustice allowed.read · scan
John Webster, The Duchess of MalfiVol. 47
- p. 800Bosola remarks that princes pay flatterers in their own money, calling that justice.read · scan
Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old DebtsVol. 47
- p. 920–922Wellborn repays honest creditors and refuses mercy to the knaves.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 334–335Make haste to right a neighbor, leaving him judge of his own satisfaction.read · scan
- p. 354Being paid twice or paid without doing business is oppression; delays are more injurious than injustice.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 47–48Denham pays creditors the full unpaid remainder beyond the composition they had accepted.read · scan
- p. 129–130Owners are protected by indifferent valuation of loss and fair payment for their goods.read · scan
- p. 154–155Franklin is denied prompt repayment of advanced money.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 281–282He makes restitution by a bond to pay what candid men deem equitable, and God respecteth not persons nor colors.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 30–32Sovereigns' avarice and injustice defrauded creditors by paying debts in debased coin.read · scan
- p. 246In justice to creditors, borrowers' own capital ought to secure lenders against loss.read · scan
- p. 254Forcing creditors to accept deferred colonial paper as full payment was violent injustice, a scheme of fraudulent debtors to cheat creditors.read · scan
- p. 255Parliament's act denying colonial paper legal tender is called most equitable.read · scan
- p. 563Pretended payment by debased coin defrauds public creditors and innocent private persons; open bankruptcy is least hurtful to creditors.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 247–248Equity requires the lenders or their persuaders to bear a loss, not third parties; the new rights of men invert this.read · scan
- p. 283–284Toleration rests on respect for justice; stolen church goods must be restored.read · scan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for ScandalVol. 18
- p. 162–164Charles says Justice is a hobbling beldame who can't keep pace with Generosity; Rowley urges being just before generous.read · scan
Treaty with Great Britain (1783)Vol. 43
- p. 175–177Creditors on either side are to meet no lawful impediment to recovering debts.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, WorshipVol. 5
- p. 291–292He corrects his fault toward the next person met, so universal justice is satisfied.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 53Crew seek redress of a perceived loss of bread allowance and are unfairly blamed for the misunderstanding.read · scan
- p. 264Dana is abruptly told to find a substitute for the Pilgrim despite orders and promise to take him home; cruel to give no notice.read · scan
- p. 265Dana tries to right Ben's plight by finding a voluntary substitute and paying with his own wages and clothes.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Twenty-Four Years AfterVol. 23
- p. 398The mate is confined in the between-decks as unfair punishment, and Thompson is later forced to compensate him.read · scan
William Morris, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1195–1196The worker's winnings being his own is hailed as a strange new justice.read · scan
Treaty with MexicoVol. 43
- p. 303Anything taken from noncombatants for army use must be paid for at an equitable price.read · scan
Convention Between the United States and the Republic of PanamaVol. 43
- p. 452–453A joint commission fairly compensates owners for damages, valued as of before the convention.read · scan
4d.Justice toward servants, strangers and guests
See also: Hospitality 3c
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 26–27Mentor condemns the wooers' violent devouring of Odysseus's household.read · scan
- p. 113Alcinous asks about peoples who are hard, wild and unjust versus hospitable and god-fearing.read · scan
- p. 118–119Odysseus frames the test of a people as wild and unjust versus hospitable and god-fearing.read · scan
- p. 119–120Odysseus expects a strange man who knew not judgment and justice.read · scan
- p. 123Odysseus rebukes the Cyclops for lawless deeds and hard-heartedness in devouring guests.read · scan
- p. 179–180Odysseus asks whether the land's people are unjust or hospitable and godfearing, and accuses the Phaeacians of being not wholly just.read · scan
- p. 191The Egyptian king restrains his men out of respect for Zeus, god of strangers, who punishes evil deeds.read · scan
- p. 195–196Eumaeus refuses to slay a guest, seeing it as a wrong; the suitors devour the fruit of labor unatoned.read · scan
- p. 217Wooers' insolent violence against guests and household is condemned as unseemly wrong.read · scan
- p. 217–218Wooers' shameful entreatment of strangers and handmaidens, and their waste of the house, is denounced as unseemly outrage.read · scan
- p. 226Penelope rebukes Antinous for impiously plotting death, ignoring suppliants, and consuming Odysseus's house without atonement.read · scan
- p. 236–237Athene sends Odysseus to test which wooers are righteous and which unjust, though none is fated to be redeemed.read · scan
- p. 239–240Odysseus invokes gods and Avengers of beggars against Antinous's ungenerous violence.read · scan
- p. 240–241Antinous is condemned for striking a hapless stranger; Penelope curses him as a bringer of black fate.read · scan
- p. 242–243Odysseus complains he was struck for no ill deed and no one kept off the blow; the wooers are wanton and infatuate.read · scan
- p. 255–256Amphinomus calls for righteous speech, urging that the stranger and thralls not be misused.read · scan
- p. 280–281Ctesippus mockingly claims the stranger's equal share is fair while hurling an ox's foot; guests' rights are violated.read · scan
- p. 281Telemachus condemns the wooers' unseemly deeds against guests and maidens; Agelaus urges fairness to stranger and thralls.read · scan
- p. 284Heracles murders his guest Iphitus with no regard for the gods' vengeance or the sacred table, violating hospitality.read · scan
- p. 292Penelope calls it neither fair nor just to rob Telemachus's guest of his due.read · scan
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 119Job declares he never wronged servants, the poor, widow or orphan, and would deserve punishment if he had.read · scan
Herodotus, An Account of EgyptVol. 33
- p. 54Thonis and Proteus hold Alexander to account for his offense against his host, seizing him and his plunder.read · scan
- p. 54–56Proteus condemns Alexander's betrayal of his host, keeps Helen and the treasure for the wronged Greek, and expels Alexander.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 91Ilioneus appeals to human laws and hospitality, trusting the just gods to avenge unjust treatment of shipwrecked men.read · scan
Luke, The Acts of the ApostlesVol. 44
- p. 434–435Grecian Jews complain that their widows are neglected in the daily ministration.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 882Do not oppress the orphan nor drive away the beggar.read · scan
- p. 967–968Guardians must deal justly with orphans' property; fear of partiality limits number of wives; devourers of orphans' property burn.read · scan
- p. 969–970Men may not inherit women against their will or take back dowry when exchanging wives.read · scan
- p. 980–981Stand fairly by orphans; act equitably toward wives.read · scan
Traditional BalladsVol. 40
- p. 144–146The knight intervenes to prevent a stranger yeoman from being slain at the wrestling.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 186Cellini insists on his right to his apprentice and punishes Ascanio for unjustly beating the shopboy.read · scan
Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake RevivedVol. 33
- p. 178–179Drake forbids harm to any unarmed man or woman; the Cimaroons keep the order and nothing is taken from the ladies.read · scan
- p. 195–196Drake's men never do violence to captives, providing for them as for themselves and protecting them from the Cimaroons before freeing them.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 130Quixote claims by law and right that hospitality is a knight's due in recompense for his travels; the innkeeper demands payment.read · scan
Nathaniel Ward, The Body of LibertiesVol. 43
- p. 76–78Wives relieved by court if left without competent portion; correction only through authority.read · scan
- p. 78–79Fair dealing toward servants, orphans, refugees and shipwrecked enemies, with courts overseeing.read · scan
Jonathan Swift, A Treatise on Good Manners and Good BreedingVol. 27
- p. 103Making an equal or inferior wait on you to his disadvantage is pride and injustice.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 215–216Humane treatment of slaves urged as a matter of fair usage, regardless of a person's power or means.read · scan
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's FortuneVol. 26
- p. 319–320Minna condemns the landlord for treating Tellheim rudely and cruelly.read · scan
- p. 333–334Landlord's knavish treatment of the Major condemned.read · scan
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