Uprightness

Uprightness, 423 arise and take what God giveth thee.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Uprightness and good faith are thus corrupted, flatterers and traitors are encouraged, and sectarians triumph, inasmuch as concessions have been made to their animosity, and they have gained the state sanction for the doctrines of which they are the interpreters.

Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

Uprightness of the most sensitive order — that which has slipped and strained its tendons — stamped all his dealings, even in the butter line; and facts having furnished a creditable motive for his rash reliance upon his own cord, he turned amid applause to the pleasant pastimes of a smug church-warden.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

And behold, in came the bride attended by an old woman, who stood at the door and said, "O Father of Uprightness, arise and take what God giveth thee."

Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

Uprightness and righteousness in the discharge of that high place whereunto he was advanced.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Reply Obj. 1: Uprightness as such does not pertain to the notion of state, except in so far as it is connatural to man with the addition of a certain restfulness.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Uprightness is the beauty of integrity; goodness is the loveliness of benevolence.

The True Citizen, How to Become One W. F. Markwick

Blessed is he who is adorned with the mantle of Uprightness and illumined with the light of Courtesy.

Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era 1899

Voice of Friendship, Uprightness, Truth and Reconciliation is he, so as to cause acceleration throughout all regions.

Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

Uprightness, clean-heartedness, good faith -- these things he prized before everything.

Demos George Gissing 1880